Erwin Brandt

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Erwin Brandt as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Erwin Ernst Otto Brandt (March 4, 1899 , † 1997 ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Live and act

In 1917 Brandt joined the Imperial Army ; with which he took part in the First World War . After the end of the war he became a member of the Lüttwitz Freikorps before he was accepted into the police force.

In 1933 Brandt was taken over as a detective in the Secret State Police , where he was mainly used in the fight against communism and the communist opposition. After the establishment of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in October 1938, he was taken on as a clerk and assigned to Department IV A 1 for dealing with communist matters. From October 1938 to the beginning of 1940 Brandt worked temporarily at the Koblenz state police station , only to return to the RSHA until the end of the war. In the summer of 1944 Brandt also served together with Fritz Cornely as head of the Sachsenhausen special command of the RSHA. In the SS (membership no. 290.449) he had achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer by the end of the war .

After the war, Brandt initially went into hiding and was finally arrested in the summer of 1946. In the following years he participated as a witness in the Nuremberg trials .

In his own trial, Brandt was accused of having “extensive knowledge of the operational involvement of the Gestapo and the SS in criminal acts”. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, which was deemed to have served due to his internment since July 31, 1946 .

On July 3, 1957, in connection with his interrogation activities in Sachsenhausen, the Second Large Criminal Chamber of the Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced Brandt to one year imprisonment and two years of loss of honor for extorting testimony in unity with dangerous bodily harm . Proceedings at the Supreme Court on the suspicion that Brandt had participated in the " special treatment of prisoners of war" was discontinued because Brandt's involvement could not be proven.

literature

  • Siegfried Grundmann: The secret apparatus of the KPD in the sights of the Gestapo , 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Year of death after Stephanie Bohra: Sachsenhausen crime scene: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606 , p. 593.
  2. ↑ Hamburg Institute for Social Research : The Protest Chronicle. 1949-1959 , 1996, p. 1669.
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandt, Erwin Ernst Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1899
DATE OF DEATH 1997