Eduard Florin

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Eduard Florin (* 1910 in Berleburg ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer who was involved in the Farneta massacre of civilians and clergy.

Life

The trained businessman and statistician worked in his father's business, which he had to give up as a result of the global economic crisis in 1930, and Eduard Florin became unemployed. He joined the NSDAP in January 1931 and the SS in 1932 . In 1933 he was employed as an auxiliary policeman and later in the Reich Ministry of Food . In the middle of 1941 he got a job with Einsatzkommando 9 of the security police and came to Vitebsk with the SD . After Florin had completed a several months long Unterführer course in Radolfzell on Lake Constance until autumn 1943, he was deployed in the supply department of the "Reichsführer-SS" division.

With this division, Florin came into action as part of a so-called anti-gang fight at the Carthusian monastery in Farneta about 10 kilometers west of Lucca in Tuscany in Italy , in which around 100 civilians were murdered. Florin was known in the monastery and was therefore able to use an excuse to have the monks open the monastery gates for the men of the Waffen SS on September 1, 1944, shortly before midnight at 11:15 p.m. Florin was tried and acquitted in La Spezia in September 1946 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlo Gentile: Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War: Italy 1943–1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8 . P. 284.
  2. ↑ L'eccidio di Farneta (Italian), on Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'Età Contemporanea in provincia di Lucca. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ The attack by the SS on the Farneta Charterhouse , on persecution of the Catholic Church by Nazis. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Florin, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berleburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1946