Anton Streitwieser

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Anton Streitwieser (born July 3, 1916 in Surheim , †  July 17, 1972 in Bochum ) was a German SS leader and third protective custody camp leader in Mauthausen concentration camp .

Life

After eight years of attending elementary school in Laufen, Streitwieser completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic, which he completed in October 1933. Then he was briefly involved with the Hitler Youth . Streitwieser became a member of the SS in 1934 (membership number 276.125) and rose there in April 1945 to SS-Obersturmführer .

In 1934, Streitwieser began his camp service in concentration camps as a member of the guards at the Dachau concentration camp . From there he moved to the Sachsenburg concentration camp in 1935 and from 1936 briefly to the Esterwegen concentration camp . He was then assigned to the NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang . From December 1, 1936, he was assigned to the camp commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There he worked in the driver's department and was Theodor Eicke's driver . In November 1938, Streitwieser was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp. In Mauthausen Streitwieser was set up from spring of 1939 until the end of 1939 as a Labor Service leader and then to March 1940 as detachment commander in building the satellite camp Gusen . In April 1940, Streitwieser became a report leader in the Gusen concentration camp. In mid-1941, Streitwieser volunteered for the Waffen SS and took part in combat missions on the Eastern Front. From June 1941 to September 1942, he served in the "Westland" regiment of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" . Due to a war injury, Streitwieser, awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and the Infantry Assault Badge , was transferred back to Mauthausen concentration camp. From October 1942, Streitwieser was III in Mauthausen concentration camp. Protective custody camp leaders deployed. At the SS Junker School in Braunschweig he completed a course for SS leaders in 1943 and was promoted to SS Untersturmführer before he returned to Mauthausen in January 1944. From March 1944 to the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in early May 1945 Streitwieser warehouse manager of the sub-camp Melk, Vienna-Schwechat, Wien-Floridsdorf, Vienna-Mödling (Hinterbrühl).

Streitwieser was considered a brutal thug among the prisoners, who also hounded his dog Hasso with the order: Where is the rascal on concentration camp inmates. In Mauthausen concentration camp he was nicknamed "The beautiful Toni". When the war ended, Streitwieser was arrested, but managed to escape from American internment in February 1946. With the false name "Klaus Werner Krug", Streitwieser managed to go into hiding and live undiscovered with his wife in Cologne. In April 1953, Streitwieser's death was officially announced by the Bonn District Court . After Streitwieser's false identity was discovered, he was arrested in 1956 and released from pretrial detention several times before the start of the trial .

Together with the former head of the Political Department at Mauthausen concentration camp, Karl Schulz , Streitwieser had to answer before the Cologne Regional Court for his crimes committed in Mauthausen. The subject matter of the proceedings included the murder of thousands of concentration camp prisoners through mistreatment, gassing and shooting . In addition, the defendants were accused of participating in selection as part of Operation 14f13 and of killing captured American paratroopers in the quarry. The verdict was pronounced on October 30, 1967: Schulz received 15 years imprisonment for joint attempted murder in one case and accessory to murder in nine cases. Streitwieser was sentenced to life imprisonment and an additional seven years for community murder in three cases and bodily harm resulting in death in two cases. In addition, Streitwieser was deprived of civil rights for life and Schulz for ten years.

Streitwieser died in mid-July 1972 in the Bochum detention hospital .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Fritz Bauer (Red.): Justice and Nazi Crimes - Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1999. Vol. XXVI, pp. 633-646.
  2. ↑ Anton Streitwieser on www.dws-xip.pl
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 608f.
  4. ↑ Hans Maršálek : The history of the concentration camp Mauthausen. Documentation. 3rd edition, Vienna-Linz 1995, p. 193.
  5. ↑ Hans Maršálek: The history of the concentration camp Mauthausen. Documentation. 3rd edition, Vienna-Linz 1995, p. 193.
  6. ↑ Proceedings against Streitwieser and Schulze on judicial and Nazi crimes ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.jur.uva.nl
  7. ↑ The persecution of the perpetrators ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at www.mauthausen-memorial.at
personal data
SURNAME Streitwieser, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protective custody camp leader in Mauthausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Surheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1972
Place of death Bochum