Carl Zenner

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Carl Zenner

Carl Peter Zenner , also Karl Peter Zenner , (born June 11, 1899 in Oberlimberg ; † June 16, 1969 in Andernach ) was a German National Socialist and SS leader, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police.

Life

Zenner was the son of a quarry manager. After elementary school he attended grammar school in Andernach, which he left with primary school. After participating in the First World War , Zenner was a member of the Northern Lithuania Brigade in the Baltic States from mid-January to the end of September 1919 , from where he was temporarily relocated to Hamburg in the spring of 1919 for three months to suppress a revolt by Spartakists . After his discharge from the army, he studied economics and business administration in Cologne and graduated in December 1921 with a degree in business administration. At Brohltal AG in Burgbrohl he then worked in the commercial area until the end of 1931, most recently as a department manager. In the first half of 1932 he was unemployed.

Zenner joined the NSDAP in August 1925 ( membership number 13,539) and then worked for the party until 1928 as the political district leader of the Koblenz-Trier district. In addition, he became a local group leader in Koblenz and was active as a Gau and Reich speaker for the NSDAP until 1933. He became a member of the SS (membership number 176) in August 1926 and in the same year he became deputy SS leader for the Rhineland district and subsequently held leading positions within this organization. During the occupation of the Rhineland , he was acquitted in 1927 by the French courts-martial in Koblenz for breaching the peace, but sentenced to a fine in Mainz for activities under the Nazis. From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the Ahrweiler district council and became deputy mayor of the city of Ahrweiler .

After his candidacy for the Prussian Landtag and the Reichstag in 1928, Zenner received a mandate for constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier) in the Reichstag in the Reichstag elections in July 1932 , but lost it in November 1932.

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists, Zenner was again a member of the Reichstag for constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier) in March 1933 , to which he belonged continuously until the end of the Nazi regime. From May 1937 until his leave of absence in August 1941 he was police chief in Aachen . From 1937 to 1942 he was an honorary judge at the People's Court . In June 1941 he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer, the highest rank he received within the SS; a few months later he was appointed major general of the police. In August 1941 he was appointed SS and Police Leader (SSPF) for Belarus in Minsk , where he was also SS site leader. At the end of July 1942 he was released from his post because Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski had held against him for too little engagement in fighting partisans. After submitting the post, he came to Berlin and became head of the registration office B II in the SS main office and stayed there until the end of the war. One of the proceedings initiated against him in autumn 1942 for "neglect of duty" was dropped in December 1943 by the Supreme SS and Police Court.

After the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the French at the end of May 1945 and interned in Balingen and Aachen . Eventually he was handed over to British military justice on June 12, 1947 and sentenced to five years in prison and a fine for participating in the November pogroms . After his release from prison in mid-June 1950, he worked as a managing director in Brohl.

On June 12, 1961, Zenner was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Koblenz Regional Court . The subject of the proceedings was the murder of over 6,000 Jewish men, women and children from the ghetto in Minsk , who were shot between November 7 and 11, 1941, "to free up living space for Jews arriving from the German Reich." He was released from custody before his death.

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