August Meier (SS member)

August Meier (* 8. October 1900 in Mainz ; † 12. May 1960 in the detention center Hohenasperg ( suicide )) was a German obersturmbannführer and leader in the task force 5 of Einsatzgruppe C .

Life

The commercial clerk fought in the First World War . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 2.019.775) and the SS (membership number 73.073). From 1936 onwards he occupied the position of SD Section Leader in Wiesbaden . He also worked for the SD in Breslau . In 1941 at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), he was responsible for economic issues as an official councilor of Section II C4.

In June 1941 he was posted to Glagow , where he was used in the construction of Einsatzgruppe C in Division III. Then he was the liaison officer of Einsatzgruppe C to the Higher SS and Police Leader of Ukraine .

On September 5, 1941, he was appointed commander of the Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C. From September to February 1942, around 10,000 Jews were murdered under his command by the Einsatzkommando 5 in the Kiev region , as was the Düsseldorf Regional Court on August 5, 1966 Judgment (8 I Ks / 66) established. SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln cited these operations, known as clean-up operations (SS jargon), in a testimony for Meier on November 29, 1941.

Then he was used in Kiev to build up the command of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS). From July 5, 1942 to November 1942, he was Walter Haensch's successor in Einsatzkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C. In Stalingrad, he fell ill with typhus and malaria . After being evacuated from the boiler by plane, he was in several hospitals until he recovered in May 1943. He was then commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) Limoges in France.

After the war he found a job with the city administration in Miltenberg . In response to a French request, it was delivered in 1949. The Bordeaux Military Court sentenced him to twenty years of forced labor in June. Because of his health - he was sixty percent incapable of work - he was released from prison in 1956.

In September / October 1959 he was interrogated about the events in Ukraine, for example at the public prosecutor's office at the Aschaffenburg district court . He was then arrested and transferred to the Hohenasperg State Penitentiary. He committed suicide there in May 1960.

literature

• Bruno Kartheuser: Walter, SD in Tulle. The tragedy of June 9, 1944. Volume 2: Occupied France 1940–1943. Edition Krautgarten Orte, Neundorf 2002, ISBN 2-87316-015-2 (About Meier's role as commander of the SD in Limoges during the Tulle massacre ).
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048 The time of National Socialism ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Dieter Pohl : Scene Ukraine. The mass murder of Jews in the military administration area and in the Reich Commissariat 1940–1943. In: Norbert Frei , Sybille Steinbacher , Bernd C. Wagner (eds.): Exploitation, destruction, public. New studies on National Socialist camp policy (= representations and sources on the history of Auschwitz. Vol. 4). Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-24033-3 , pp. 135-173.
• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 .
• Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: race politics and warfare. Security Police and Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union 1939–1942. Rothe, Passau 1991, ISBN 3-927575-21-6 .