Anton Malloth

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Anton Malloth (born February 13, 1912 in Innsbruck ; † October 31, 2002 in Straubing ) was an SS overseer in the Gestapo prison in the Small Fortress Theresienstadt .

Life

Anton Malloth grew up in Schenna near Merano in South Tyrol , where his foster parents ran a farm and an inn. He did an apprenticeship as a butcher and was first corporal in the Italian army . With the option he opted for Germany and was dismissed with the rank of sergeant in 1939.

After his naturalization in Innsbruck in February 1940, he was trained as a police officer , later in Pretzsch as a border police officer with the rank of police sergeant. He married in 1941 and had one daughter.

Work as an overseer and law enforcement officer

In June 1940 Malloth was assigned to the Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt as a guard. He was given an SS uniform and the SS squad leader . Heinrich Jöckel was the prison director . Malloth stayed there until Theresienstadt was liberated by the Red Army on May 8, 1945.

After several escape stations, he initially stayed with his in-laws in Wörgl . At the end of 1947 / beginning of 1948 he was taken into extradition detention in Innsbruck. When he was questioned by an Innsbruck judge, he played down his role in the Gestapo prison and denied any involvement in torture and murder. In September 1948 he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Czechoslovak war crimes court in Theresienstadt . The court in Litoměřice considered it to be clearly proven after extensive testimony that Malloth, known and feared among the inmates as "the beautiful Toni", had beaten a large number (approx. 100) of inmates to death. An extradition request from the Czech Republic was ultimately ignored by the Austrian judiciary. Released from prison in early 1949, he fled to South Tyrol.

Malloth lived undisturbed in Meran in South Tyrol until 1988 , received Italian citizenship in 1952 and, after it was revoked again in 1956, German citizenship in 1957 . The German consulate in Milan extended his German passport several times despite several extradition requests from German and Austrian judicial authorities.

In 1988 he was then expelled to Germany , where the Dortmund public prosecutor both refused to extradite him to Austria or Czechoslovakia, as well as to open an investigation , so Malloth remained at large.

From 1988 to 2000 Malloth lived in Pullach on the southern edge of Munich . Gudrun Burwitz , Heinrich Himmler's daughter , had found him a room in a senior citizens' home with a high standard there on behalf of Silent Help , which was built on a piece of land that had belonged to the "Deputy Leader ", Rudolf Hess , during the Nazi era . When it became public at the end of the 1990s that the social welfare administration - and thus the German taxpayers - had largely assumed the considerable running costs for Malloth's retirement home, there was considerable criticism in the media - including Gudrun Burwitz's commitment.

One of his victims was Martin Finkelgruen (1876-1942), whose murder of his grandson Peter Finkelgruen in the books House Germany. The Story of an Unpunished Murder (1992) and Erlkönigs Reich. The Story of a Deception (1997) has been described. Peter Finkelgruen tried for ten years to have the case against his grandfather's murderer reopened. In 1993 the play Der Schöne Toni by Joshua Sobol was premiered at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

After the case had meanwhile been taken over by the Munich public prosecutor, Malloth was taken into custody on May 25, 2000, and on December 15, 2000 the Munich public prosecutor brought charges of murder. The trial in the Munich-Stadelheim remand prison began on April 23, 2001. He responded to Jürgen Hanreich , chairman of the jury, for example. B. “No, you don't understand that, you weren't there.” Survivors from the Small Fortress testified as witnesses in court and once again confirmed that he u. a. had arranged to spray two naked inmates with water in winter until they were dead. On May 30, 2001, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Munich Regional Court I for murder and attempted murder.

Ten days before his death, the detainee, who was seriously ill with cancer, was declared incapable of imprisonment and released.

literature

  • Jürgen Hanreich: The late judgment . Volk Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86222-294-0 .
  • Oliver Schröm, Andrea Röpke: Silent help for brown comrades. The secret network of old and neo-Nazis . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-231-X .
  • Ernst Klee : What they did - what they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick and Jews (Fischer-Taschenbuch; 4364). 12th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-596-24364-5 .
  • Ernst Klee: Persil notes and false passports. How the churches helped the Nazis (Fischer-Taschenbuch; 10956). 5th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-596-10956-6 .
  • Peter Finkelgruen: House of Germany or the story of an unpunished murder . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-19610-7 .
  • Peter Finkelgruen: Erlkönigs Reich. The story of a deception . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-499-60792-1 .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Jürgen Hanreich, s. Literature, p. 104 f
  2. ↑ Jürgen Hanreich, s. Literature, p. 104 f
  3. ↑ The judgment was overturned in 1969, but the extradition request remained.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Hanreich, s. Literature, p. 106.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Hanreich, s. Literature, p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Malloth, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German overseer in the Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2002
Place of death Straubing