Erich Körting

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Erich Körting (born January 22, 1902 near Dessau ; † August 21, 1978 in Dernbach ) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer who was involved in the murder of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union as commander of Sonderkommando 7c ("Pre-Command Moscow") .

Life

Erich Körting joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1929 . ( NSDAP membership number 126764, SS membership number 3395). From the beginning of 1933 he was district leader of the SD based in Dessau , initially only as an SD employee. Only later was he given the status of SD member retrospectively. In 1937/38 Körting was head of the “Main Department Inland” (Office II) at the SD Upper Section “Elbe” based in Dresden . Because of a chronic heart condition, he was exempt from professional sports there .

From September 1941, he was the successor of Waldemar Klingelhöfer in charge of the “Moscow Preliminary Command”, which was part of Einsatzgruppe B during the attack on the Soviet Union . The Sonderkommando was intended for the occupation of Moscow . After the Wehrmacht could not take Moscow, the unit was renamed Sonderkommando 7c. The Sonderkommando under the leadership of Körting committed mass murders of Jews and political commissars in the wake of Army Group Center , especially in the Smolensk area . In December 1941, Körting was replaced by Wilhelm Bock . Two task force reports have come down to us, in which the operations and victims of Körting's Sonderkommando are named: USSR incident report No. 125 of October 26, 1941 and No. 133 of November 14, 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg C. Browder: The beginnings of the SD. Documents from the organizational history of the Reichsführer SS Security Service (PDF; 1.0 MB) . In: " Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte ". Volume 27 (1979), issue no. 2, pp. 302-303.
  2. ^ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in Hidden. Ideology and regional domination practice of the security service of the SS and its network using the example of Saxony . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 3486585436 , pp. 105-106.
  3. ↑ Ronald Headland: Messages of murder: A study of the reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the Security Service, 1941-1943. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford (NJ) 1992, ISBN 0838634184 , pp. 219-220.
personal data
SURNAME Körting, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korting, Erich; Koerting, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS officer in Einsatzgruppe B
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1978
Place of death Dernbach