Erwin Seifert (SS member)

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Erwin Seifert (born October 14, 1915 in Adelsdorf ; † April 6, 1997 in Aalen ) was a Sudeten German SS-Oberscharführer , block leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and convicted war criminal .

Life

Erwin Seifert was a sawmith by trade. From 1937 to 1938 he served in the Czechoslovak Army . In 1938 he became a member of the SS-Totenkopfstandarte “Brandenburg” . From 1939 he was part of the command staff of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he worked as a block leader. From 1943 to 1944 he was camp manager in the Berlin-Lichterfelde satellite camp . In 1944 he was transferred to the satellite camp Engerhafe the Neuengamme displaced, where he served as a camp leader from December 1944th

After the war he was a British prisoner of war from 1945 to 1946 and then worked as a sawmith, driver and salesman .

In 1965 he was arrested and was in custody . On April 20, 1970, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Cologne Regional Court for five murder and four attempted murder of concentration camp inmates . In the same year an investigation by the Aurich public prosecutor's office against him for the crimes in Engerhafe was set. He served his imprisonment in the Heilbronn penal institution . On October 8, 1987, he was released on parole .

literature

  • Stephanie Bohra: crime scene Sachsenhausen: prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 605.
  2. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 540.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme . CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 355.
  4. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 543.
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German SS Oberscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelsdorf , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1997
Place of death Bask