Alois Frey

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Alois Frey (born October 16, 1911 in Bühlertal ; † after 1974) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer who headed the Günthergrube satellite camp affiliated to Auschwitz . In the course of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials , he was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Life

The farmer's son earned his living working in a chip basket factory. He joined the SS in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937 ( membership number 4,717,954). During the Second World War he was deployed from mid-1940 to the guards of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . In September 1942 he was assigned to the camp SS in the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp , where he was last assigned as block leader. Promoted to Unterscharführer, he became camp leader of the Günthergrube satellite camp at the beginning of February 1944 and remained in this position until the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945. Up to 600 concentration camp prisoners had to do forced labor in this camp to mine coal . He was characterized by Auschwitz survivors as cruel and taciturn.

After the end of the war he was sentenced by the District Court in Krakow on March 30, 1948 to a six-year prison term. After he was released from Polish custody in 1953, he moved back to his hometown, where he worked as an electrician. From December 18, 1973, Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki, who was also accused , had to answer for violent Nazi crimes in the Auschwitz concentration camp before the jury court at the Frankfurt am Main regional court . Frey was accused of selecting prisoners unable to work in 1944 and thus delivering them to death. He was also accused of having shot two prisoners during the war-related evacuation of the Günthergrube subcamp on January 19, 1945, "because they did not turn a sledge fast enough". Frey was acquitted on November 25, 1974 for lack of evidence. A few weeks earlier, the Catholic parish of St. Michael in Bühlertal had spoken out on behalf of Frey in a letter to the presiding judge, since the parish was convinced of Frey's alleged innocence after consulting with Frey.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 127
  2. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: Günthergrube . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 245.
  3. ^ City Chronicle 1974. Institute for City History in the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main
  4. ↑ Justice: Optical reasons. In the mirror . Issue 6/1974, April 15, 1974, pp. 47-49
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharführer in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bühlertal
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century