Ernst Zierke

Ernst Zierke (born May 6, 1905 in Krampe ; † May 23, 1972 in Celle ) was a German SS sergeant and involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt ".

Life

After he left elementary school at the age of 13, he worked as a painter and woodcutter. He joined the NSDAP and SA in 1930. He later also became a member of the SS . From 1934 to 1940 Zierke worked as a nurse in the Neuruppin sanatorium .

His service commitment to " Aktion T4 " took place in January 1940. Zierke was employed as a carer and driver in the Grafeneck , Hadamar and Sonnenstein euthanasia centers. After the official end of euthanasia, Zierke was used by the Todt Organization from late 1941 to March 1942 to transport the wounded to the Eastern Front near Vyasma .

He was then used from June 1942 to March 1943 in the Belzec extermination camp . There he worked in various functions and also took part in the shooting of Jews. In March 1943 he was transferred to the SS labor camp Dorohucza and from the beginning of November 1943 to the Sobibor extermination camp . There he was involved in the liquidation of the camp and the shooting of the last Jewish inmates until December 1943. Thereafter, it was in the operational zone Adriatisches Küstenland for special department use R to Trieste added that the "extermination", the confiscated Jewish property and the antipartisan served.

After the end of the war he was a prisoner of war . Zierke was arrested at the end of January 1963. In the Belzec trial , Zierke was charged with complicity in community murder in 360,000 cases and was put out of court on January 30, 1964 due to an imperfect order . In the Sobibor trial , Zierke was charged with aiding and abetting the joint murder of 30 people and on January 15, 1965, due to a lack of orders, was again put out of court.

Zierke died on May 23, 1972 in Celle.

literature

Jan H. Fahlbusch: In the center of mass murder. Ernst Zierke in the Belzec extermination camp . In: Andreas Mix (ed.): Concentration camp crime. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist concentration camps . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-50-5 , pp. 53-72.

Web links

Belzec Perpetrators on deathcamps.org

Individual evidence

↑ Personal master record Zierke, Ernst. In: Bibliography portal on the history of East Central Europe. Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe , accessed on August 12, 2015 .
↑ Jan H. Fahlbusch: In the center of mass murder. Ernst Zierke in the Belzec extermination camp . In: Andreas Mix (ed.): Concentration camp crime. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist concentration camps . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-50-5 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Zierke, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Unterscharführer and involved in "Aktion T4" and "Aktion Reinhardt"
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cramp
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 1972
Place of death	Celle

[1] Personal master record Zierke, Ernst. In: Bibliography portal on the history of East Central Europe. Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe , accessed on August 12, 2015 .

[2] Jan H. Fahlbusch: In the center of mass murder. Ernst Zierke in the Belzec extermination camp . In: Andreas Mix (ed.): Concentration camp crime. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist concentration camps . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-50-5 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).