Ernst Heinicker

Trial against Ernst Heinicker, storm leader of the SA and deputy camp commandant of the Hohnstein concentration camp ; the verdict reads under "Control Council Act No. 10" and "Directive 38" on the death penalty for "crimes against humanity" (June 21, 1950).

Ernst Karl Johann Heinicker (born November 17, 1906 in Leipzig ; † November 4, 1950 , executed in Waldheim ) was a German SA leader and deputy camp commandant in the Hohnstein concentration camp .

Heinicker was a member of the NSDAP and the SA from 1931 to 1945 , where he had the rank of storm leader in 1933 . On March 8, 1933, SA men occupied Hohnstein Castle and set up a so-called “ protective custody camp ”. After the Reichstag fire on February 28, 1933, political opponents were arrested in order to break them through humiliation, humiliation, violence and mistreatment. In connection with the so-called Röhm Putsch on June 30, 1934, the SS under Karl Otto Koch took over the camp before it was closed on August 25, 1934. After the dissolution, 17 corpses were found according to the Socialist Action from 1935, including a. also two immured people. To date, however, this has not been confirmed exactly.

Heinicker became deputy camp commandant in Hohnstein concentration camp in April 1934, but was deposed in the same year. In May 1935 there were proceedings against 23 security guards, including the camp commandant Erich Jähnichen, for “collective bodily harm in office”. Heinicker was sentenced to 18 months in prison for mistreating detainees. By personal order of Adolf Hitler, the judgment was overturned against the will of the Reich Ministry of Justice.

After years of incarceration in Soviet special camps Heini Shrouded was in the Waldheim trials on June 21, 1950 after a show trial just eleven hours in the presence of the East German Justice Minister Max Fechner sentenced to death , rejected the appeal and he on November 4 executed .

literature

• Karl Wilhelm Fricke , Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Committed to the truth - texts from five decades on the history of the GDR , Berlin 2000, pp. 288–290
• Peter Blachstein u. a .: "The flag of freedom lives in us": Testimonies to the early Hohnstein Castle concentration camp , Sächsische Gedenkstätten Foundation, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-934382-16-9 .
• Carina Baganz: "Mildness against the criminals would be a crime against the victims." The Hohnstein Trials 1949. In: Jörg Osterloh and Clemens Vollnhals (Eds.): Nazi Trials and the German Public: Occupation, Early Federal Republic and GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-525-36921-0 .
• Bernd Withöft: The Ernst Heinicker case. In: The death sentences of the Waldheim trials. Dissertation. University of Vienna 2008, revised 2014, pp. 66–71 ( online )

Web links

• Death sentences of the Waldheim trials ( Memento from March 6, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
• Falco Werkentin : The Waldheimer processes . In: Kurt Groenewold , Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Trials . Online, as of July 2018.