Bernhard Stredele
Bernhard Stredele (born August 9, 1911 ; † 1981 ) was district leader of the NSDAP in Berchtesgaden from September 1943 to 1945 .
Stredele joined the NSDAP in 1930. Stredele was married and had three children.
After the end of the Second World War , Stredele was a defendant in one of the aviation trials because in March 1945 at a meeting of the NSDAP local group leaders from the Berchtesgaden area, he had given the order to eliminate all captured Allied airmen, since they were not soldiers but Are criminals. He had invoked an order from Martin Bormann on the occasion of his court hearing .
He was also charged with ordering one of his subordinates, the local group leader of the NSDAP and Mayor of Freilassing August Kobus , on April 16, 1945, to surrender the American pilot Chester E. Coggeshall, who had been shot down in his plane near Sillersdorf and surrendered had to execute. Kobus stated that he obeyed this order. Kobus had killed the plane with two head shots in a forest. Stredele was sentenced to death by shooting on March 14, 1946 .
The death sentence was not carried out, but on July 15, 1947, it was commuted to a life sentence in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . In January 1954 he was granted exemption from prison for health reasons ("medical parole"), which was revoked in March 1956. In April 1957 he was released again.
literature
- Kobus, Stredele, Boehm et al. von Massow, trial files (English; PDF; 96.05 MB)
- Stredele, review of judgment and recommendation (English; PDF file; 1.69 MB)
- Yavnai, Elizabeth, Military Justice: The US Army War Crime Trials in Germany, 1944-1947. PhD dissertation, London 2007
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stredele, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German war criminal, district leader of the NSDAP in Berchtesgaden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1911 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |