Erwin Weinmann

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Erwin Weinmann (born July 6, 1909 in Frommenhausen Kreis Tübingen ; † 1945 disappeared and declared dead in 1949) was a German doctor, SS-Oberführer and colonel in the police; Head of Group IV D (Occupied Territories) within the Gestapo (Office IV) in the Reich Main Security Office; from January 1942 to July 1943 as the leader of Sonderkommando 4a (Sk4a) responsible for the mass murder of Jews in Ukraine .

Life

Weinmann's father was a teacher and died in Flanders during the First World War , so that Erwin and his brother Ernst (Mayor of Tübingen from 1939 to 1945) grew up without a father.

As a student in Rottweil , he began to be active in the Nazi regime. In the summer semester of 1927, he began studying medicine at the University of Tübingen , where the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) was already setting the tone at that time . The few professors in Tübingen, who were not anti-ethnic and xenophobic, were personally attacked in partly militant campaigns. In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 774.436), the NSDStB and the SA .

In July 1932, the NSDStB received half of the 24 seats in the Tübingen General Student Committee (AStA). Weinmann was parliamentary group leader of the NSDStB in the AStA in the summer semester of 1932. In June 1932 he joined the SS (membership number 280.196).

Weinmann worked after the end of his studies, which he completed with a dissertation on a case of lipodystrophia progressiva , until the autumn of 1936 as a doctor at the University Hospital in Tübingen.

Recruited by Gustav Adolf Scheel , he and a number of other Tübingen Nazi student activists ( Eugen Steimle , Martin Sandberger , Erich Ehrlinger , Ernst Weinmann , Alfred Rapp and Walter Stahlecker , Rudolf Bilfinger, who were several years older ), found their way through the SD upper section southwest in Stuttgart the way to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

Weinmann had been a member of the SD since 1936, became staff leader of the SD in Berlin in 1937 and was head of Office Group IV D (occupied areas) in the RSHA from March 1941.

After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941, Weinmann replaced Paul Blobel as head of Sonderkommando 4a in January 1942 during his murderous campaigns in Ukraine . In the summer of 1942 he became the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Prague . He is said to have died there in May 1945 in the fighting for Prague .

After 1945

On June 9, 1949, Weinmann was declared dead by the Reutlingen District Court .

But the suspicion that Weinmann was able to escape via the " rat lines " to the Middle East after the end of the war did not want to fall silent . Most recently, in 1968 , the Cologne Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution asked the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations in Ludwigsburg whether the SS-Standartenführer Weinmann , who lived in Alexandria ( Egypt ), was identical to the former BdS Prague.

Awards

  • In 1940 Weimann was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Dietrich Adam , Wilfried Setzler: University and National Socialism. The University of Tübingen in the Third Reich . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3169396021 , pp. 43-44.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 663.
personal data
SURNAME Weinmann, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chief of Sonderkommando 4a, Head of Division IV D in the RSHA, mass murderer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frommenhausen
DATE OF DEATH after 1945