Christian Franz Weck

Christian Franz Weck (born January 8, 1904 in Vienna , † December 11, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German dentist and as SS-Oberscharführer temporarily deputy head of the political department in the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Life

After finishing secondary school in the Sudetenland , he began training with a dentist in Eger in 1920 and then worked as a dental assistant at a dentist. From 1924 to 1925 he did a shortened military service in the Czechoslovak Army. In 1934 he passed the dentist examination and opened his own practice. In 1935 Weck joined the Sudeten German Party. After a brief activity as an SS standardist, he was drafted into the SS medical department in Munich-Freimann in 1939. Because of a heart defect, he was only employed in the clerk's office in Berlin-Lichterfelde as “garrison usable”, then in October 1940 he was on leave until further notice. He then ran his now closed practice in Eger until he was called up again in February 1941 and was first employed in the guard battalion of the Flossenbürg concentration camp , then in the office of the 3rd Company and from spring 1942 to January 1944 in the commandant's office in the political department . In 1943 Weck was appointed SS-Oberscharführer.

While he was working in the political department, Weck participated in the execution of a shot in the neck of at least twenty prisoners by bringing a small-bore rifle and ammunition he had kept to the detention center or the crematorium. Weck reloaded the rifle and shot himself in at least two cases.

In 1944 he was transferred to the dental station, where he was given a mobile dental station and worked both in the sub-camps of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and at Eisenberg Castle near Brüx .

After the end of the war, Weck was first imprisoned in the Soviet occupation zone in Bautzen , and later in the Sachsenhausen- Oranienburg camp . After his release he set up his own practice in Nidda ( Upper Hesse ) in 1950 . In June 1956, the Weiden District Court sentenced him to five and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting murder in 20 cases. Weck knew that there was no court ruling, that is, it was a matter of unlawful killings and an abuse of state power. Since this judgment was overturned by the BGH , the Weck criminal case was tried again in July 1957 and concluded with the same sentence. The court considered it proven that Weck had helped the protective custody camp leader Karl Fritzsch and thus assisted the murder and had shot himself in two cases.

literature

• Toni Siegert: The Flossenbürg concentration camp. Founded for so-called anti-social and criminals. In: Martin Broszat , Elke Fröhlich (Ed.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Domination and society in conflict. Volume II, Part A, Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-486-49371-X .
• Justice and Nazi crimes : Dick W. de Mildt, Christiaan F. Ruter (editor), Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945-1966 , Volume 14, Case No. 448, pp. 261-287, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (2013) ISBN 90-8964-491-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of death not saved - s. Discus
2. ↑ Dick W. de Mildt, Christiaan F. Ruter (editor), Justice and Nazi Crimes: Collection of German Judgments for National Socialist Homicidal Crimes 1945-1966 , Volume 14, Procedure No. 448, pp. 264-265. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (2013) ISBN 90-8964-491-1
3. ↑ Dick W. de Mildt, Christiaan F. Ruter (editor), Justice and Nazi Crimes: Collection of German Judgments for National Socialist Homicidal Crimes 1945-1966 , Volume 14, Procedure No. 448, p. 283. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (2013) ISBN 90-8964-491-1 .
4. ^ Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes . Mohr Siebeck, 2002, ISBN 978-3-16-147687-7 , pp. 255 ff.
5. ↑ Dick W. de Mildt, Christiaan F. Ruter (editor), Justice and Nazi Crimes: Collection of German Judgments for National Socialist Homicidal Crimes 1945-1966 , Volume 14, Procedure No. 448, p. 283. Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (2013) ISBN 90-8964-491-1 , p. 242.
6. ↑ Five years in prison for aiding and abetting murder , report in the Passauer Neue Presse of July 5, 1957.