Erich Roth (SS member)

Erich Roth (born May 25, 1910 in Auschwitz ; † December 27, 1947 in Yugoslavia ) was SS-Sturmbannführer , Head of Division IV B1 and B2 (political Catholicism and Protestantism) and deputy group leader in Office IV ( Gestapo ) of the RSHA .

Life

Born in Auschwitz , Roth came from a family of workers and cottagers. His father had worked his way up to the position of senior secretary for the Reichsbahn. He attended a humanistic grammar school and studied law in Jena and Göttingen . He completed his legal traineeship exam under the Nazi regime. He passed the assessor exam in 1937 with "sufficient" .

After a brief activity at the local court, Roth moved to Berlin in February 1938 as an assessor at the Secret State Police Office . After the start of the war, he worked in the occupation administration in the General Government of Poland from October 1939 . Later he took over the church departments IV B1 and IV B2 in the newly formed Reich Security Main Office .

In February 1943, Roth became head of the Gestapo in Dortmund . At the end of 1944 he was to become a special representative of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationality in Oslo , Norway . The Reich Security Main Office refused such a transfer, as Roth could “under no circumstances be detached from his current activity without endangering security police concerns, considering the current overall situation in the West” .

After 1945

In 1947 Roth was extradited to Yugoslavia by the French occupying forces . There he was sentenced to death and executed .

literature

• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930-90875-1 .