Alois Persterer

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Alois Persterer (* 29. September 1909 in Saalfelden , † the 30th May 1945 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian obersturmbannführer who in World War II as commander of Sonderkommando 10b at the murder of the Jews in the occupied Ukraine , on the Crimean in and Caucasus was involved.

Life

Alois Persterer served as a car mechanic in the Austrian army from 1928 to 1933 . On March 1, 1930, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 897.521), later also of the SS (SS number 309.697). Even when the NSDAP was banned in Austria , Persterer was in charge of the SD section in Salzburg and provided courier services for the local Gauleitung. He was arrested and given 18 months in prison and imprisonment for illegal activity. With the made in March 1938 " connection " of Austria to the German Reich Persterer was released from custody and took over full-time SD in Salzburg.

From the deployment in May 1941 in Pretzsch to December 1942, Persterer commanded Sonderkommando 10b, which was part of Einsatzgruppe D during the attack on the Soviet Union . Under Persterer's direction the Sonderkommando 10b u. a. December 4, 1941, the massacre of Feodosia . In April 1942, Persterer ordered the use of gas vans for the more effective murder of Jews in his command . His successor as chief of Sonderkommando 10b was Eduard Jedamzik .

After his assignment with the Einsatzgruppen, Persterer returned to Salzburg to work for the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He then replaced Josef Vogt as commander of the Sipo and SD in the occupied territories of Carinthia and Carniola , based in Bled . He himself was replaced in Bled in November 1944.

Persterer had three children. He was killed in Salzburg on May 30, 1945 under unknown circumstances. According to one tradition, he was the victim of a robbery and another shot by American soldiers when he resisted capture .

Aftermath

After the end of the war , Persterer's superior Otto Ohlendorf testified in the Einsatzgruppen trial that he had personally inspected an execution by Sonderkommando 10b. SS-Hauptsturmführer Felix Rühl , who was on the staff in Persterer's Sonderkommando 10b, was also indicted in the same trial .

Persterer's eldest daughter, born in 1939, took part from 2002 to 2006 in a project by historian Margit Reiter on how the descendants of Nazi perpetrators in Austria deal with their family past.

literature

  • Andrej Angrick : Occupation Policy and Mass Murder: The Einsatzgruppe D in the southern Soviet Union 1941–1943 . Hamburg 2003.
  • Margit Reiter: The generation after - National Socialism in the family memory . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 3-7065-1940-2 .
  • Walter Thaler : Pinzgauer! Heroes - fools - pioneers. Portraits from the provinces . newacademicpress, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99036-014-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Kogon : National Socialist mass killings by poison gas . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-10-040402-5 , p. 104.
  2. ^ Karl Stuhlpfarrer : Expert opinion on the documentary film "The Carinthian Partisans" (PDF; 296 kB) . University of Klagenfurt, Institute for History, Klagenfurt 2002, p. 13.
  3. ^ Andrej Angrick: Occupation Policy and Mass Murder: The Einsatzgruppe D in the southern Soviet Union 1941-1943 . Hamburg 2003, p. 725.
  4. ^ Marianne Enigl , Christa Zöchling : Not asked. Children in the shadow of the swastika . In: "profile" of October 21, 2006, ISSN  1022-2111 .
personal data
SURNAME Persterer, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS officer in Einsatzgruppe D
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfelden
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1945
Place of death Salzburg