Ernst Stengelin

Erwin Hermann Stengelin (born May 6, 1909 in Tuttlingen , † October 14, 1943 in the Sobibór extermination camp ) was a German SS sergeant and was killed in the Sobibór uprising . Nothing is known about his life.

Stengelin served in the Grafeneck Castle killing center in Grafeneck near Münsingen and in the Hadamar Nazi killing center before he was assigned to the Treblinka extermination camp as part of “ Aktion Reinhardt ” . He was then sent to the Sobibór extermination camp shortly before the Sobibór uprising . There he was deployed in Camp I and was killed by the camp inmates in the course of the uprising. Suchomel was the only one to report his death.

literature

• Barbara Distel : Sobibor . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 376 ff.
• Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast-Verlag . Hamburg / Münster 2003. ISBN 3-89771-814-6
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 591.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 591.
2. ^ Short biography of Ernst Stengelin at www.deathcamps.org
3. ↑ Schlevis: Sobibor extermination camp. P. 310 (see literature)