Edmund Trinkl

Edmund Trinkl (born May 15, 1891 in Offendorf ; † after 1970 ) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat , member of the Bavarian Political Police , administrative director of the Gestapa , head of Section I A 6 (Welfare and Supply) of the Reich Main Security Office and in the National Socialist German Reich Welfare Office of the Race and Settlement Main Office .

Life

Edmund Trinkl was born in Offendorf near Riedenburg ( Kelheim district ) as the son of the teacher couple Edmund and Lenta Trinkl. He attended the elementary school in Offendorf from 1897 to 1903 and then until 1907 the humanistic grammar school .

In the First World War and Freikorps Epp

After a semester of garden engineering in Bad Köstritz 1910/11, he began his military service on October 22, 1912. He was promoted to sergeant on October 1, 1913 , and went to World War I on August 2, 1914 . With the admission to the senior military administrative official career on December 1, 1915, Trinkl completed his training as a paymaster and was employed from February 3, 1917 in the field adjudicator of the 5th Bavarian Infantry Division Nuremberg . In April 1919 he joined the Freikorps Epp as director of the supply staff in Ulm and took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic and the 1920 Ruhr uprising.

On September 16, 1920, Trinkl joined the administrative service of the Bavarian State Police in Munich as a constable . He was released from the Reichswehr on November 30, 1920 as a first lieutenant .

Already in 1923 Trinkl joined the " Reichskriegsflagge " and took part in the Hitler putsch on 8/9. November in Munich .

In 1924 he married Wanda Brauser, born on July 21, 1882, and built a house in Waldtrudering near Munich.

At the Bavarian Political Police

In January 1933 he joined the SA and shortly thereafter became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 3.202.025) and the SS (membership number 107.233). On October 1, 1933, he went to the Bavarian Political Police as an administrative specialist , but was still formally as chief paymaster in the administration of the Bavarian State Police until March 31, 1934. He was promoted to police inspector on April 18, 1934, to SS-Untersturmführer on April 20, 1934, and to police council on July 1, 1934.

In the Gestapa

Together with the head of the Bavarian Political Police Reinhard Heydrich and other relatives (such as the later Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller ) he was commanded by Heinrich Himmler to the Prussian Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin on October 18, 1934 and retrospectively as an SS Untersturmführer transferred to the security service of the SS ( SD ). Here, Trinkl was in charge of Section I 2 A Administrative Affairs (house, equipment, materials, prison administration). With the reorganization of the Gestapa through a business distribution plan of October 1, 1935, he advanced to administrative director and head of Department I A (organization and business operations of the central authority, personnel matters for middle and lower civil servants, employees and wage earners of the central authority). At the same time, Trinkl was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer and on April 20, 1936 to SS-Hauptsturmführer . The promotion to SS-Sturmbannführer took place on January 30, 1937 and the promotion to the government council in May 1937 was pronounced retrospectively to April 1, 1937.

Trinkl resigned from the church on January 24, 1938.

In the Reich Security Main Office

The business distribution plan of February 1, 1940 of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), newly formed in September 1939 by merging the SS Main Security Police Office ( Gestapo and Criminal Police ) with the SD , assigns Trinkl to the rank of SS Sturmbannführer and Government Councilor as head of the main office and the office in Office I. Promoted to the Upper Government Council with effect from April 1, 1940 , Trinkl became head of Section I A 6 (welfare system) at the end of the same month. The assumption of this rather insignificant report, which was finally dissolved on June 19, 1944, showed the dwindling influence of the drink, who was already one of the older employees of the RSHA.

In the Race and Settlement Main Office

Promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on October 1, 1940 and unable to work due to illness from March to July 1944, a suitable job was sought for him, which was finally found in the Welfare Office of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS (RuSHA), alternative point in Prague . However, his remuneration was still paid by the RSHA. In the RuSHA he took over the management of the collection point for war losses for SS and police dead.

After the war

On April 20, 1945, Trinkl and his wife fled from Prague to Königstein Fortress in Saxon Switzerland. From here he made his way to his mother in Bavaria and reported to the military government in Riedenburg . He was interned and then lived in Munich . A case against him by the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office was initiated on December 6, 1966 in accordance with Section 170 (2) of the Criminal Code because he “was not concerned with the staffing of the task forces and their successor units in the cited sections”. On December 2, 1970, he was questioned as a witness for other trials by the Central Office of the State Judicial Administrations for the Prosecution of National Socialist Violent Crimes in Ludwigsburg .

literature

• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 (also: Hannover, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ref .: 1 Js 12/65