Ernst Girzick

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Ernst Girzick during internment

Ernst Adolf Girzick (born October 17, 1911 in Vienna-Hietzing ; † March 4, 1977 in Neumarkt am Wallersee ) was SS-Obersturmführer (1945) and employee in the Eichmann department of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). In his functions Girzick was jointly responsible for the deportation of Jews to the concentration and extermination camps and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for this in Vienna after the end of the war.

biography

Girzick, an electrical engineer by profession, became unemployed after completing his professional training. In 1931 he became a member of the Federal Army and a member of the German Soldiers' Union and the NSDAP . After his discharge from the army in 1933, he was unemployed again. Girzick was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1934 due to so-called "firecrackers", but released after two years from the prison in Stein an der Donau on account of an amnesty . Girzik moved to the German Reich and was brought to the Ranis SS camp by the Austrian Legion . From November 1937 he worked as a tram conductor in Dresden . After Austria was annexed to the German Empire, Girzick was awarded the so-called Blood Order. After initially working in the “ Property Transfer Office ” of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Vienna from 1938 , he soon moved to the “ Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna ” and remained there from 1939 as Alois Brunner's deputy until March 1943 he head of the main office of the “ Central Office for the Settlement of the Jewish Question ” in Prague . From March to December 1944 Girzick belonged to the Eichmann Special Command in Budapest. He received the War Merit Cross, Second Class. Then Girzick was deployed again in Prague until the end of the war. From there he fled on May 5, 1945 in a motorcade with Brunner and other RSHA employees.

After the end of the war

Girzick was arrested by Austrian gendarmes in Köstendorf near Salzburg in mid-November 1946 because he had not reported to the local police authorities. From the end of 1946 he had to answer before the Vienna People's Court . He was finally sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on September 3, 1948, because he was involved in the deportation of Viennese Jews to Theresienstadt and in extermination camps . On December 18, 1953, he was pardoned because his wife and two children, among other things, lived in poor conditions. In addition, the "crime charged with [...] only consists in the fact that he was employed in the Jewish evacuation center". He then lived in Seewalchen am Attersee . Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

  • Hans Safrian: Eichmann and his assistants . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12076-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Jan Björn Potthast: The Jewish Central Museum of the SS in Prague - Opponent Research and Genocide under National Socialism. Campus-Verlag, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-593-37060-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Neumarkt am Wallersee registry office No. 7/1977.
  2. ^ Hans Safrian : Eichmann und seine Gehilfen , Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 54f.
  3. ↑ Jan Björn Potthast: The Jewish Central Museum of the SS in Prague - Opponent Research and Genocide under National Socialism . Munich 2002, pp. 86, 154.
  4. ↑ Jan Björn Potthast: The Jewish Central Museum of the SS in Prague - Opponent Research and Genocide under National Socialism . Munich 2002, pp. 87, 381.
  5. ^ Salzburger Tagblatt, November 20, 1946, p. 4 ( online ). Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  6. ^ Holocaust in court: The deportation of the Viennese Jews in 1941 and 1942 and the Austrian judiciary after 1945 at www.nachkriegsjustiz.at
  7. ↑ Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider: "There is in fact no personal guilt" - Interior Minister Oskar Helmer and the pardon for convicted Nazi perpetrators , from: "Justiz & Remembrance" No. 8, pp. 1-6.
  8. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 185.
personal data
SURNAME Girzick, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girzick, Ernst Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS-Obersturmführer and employee in the Jewish department of the RSHA
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Hietzing
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1977
Place of death Neumarkt am Wallersee