Eugene Wipf

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Eugen Wipf (born December 12, 1916 in Dorf am Irchel , Canton of Zurich , † August 31, 1948 in Zurich ) was a Swiss prisoner functionary in the SS special camp in Hinzert .

Life

Wipf was born in December 1916 as the son of a small farmer in the village of Dorf am Irchel. After two years of secondary school, he worked as a groom in the canton of Neuchâtel . He then began an apprenticeship as a blacksmith at the age of 16.5, but broke it off. Wipf found his way through as a henchman . After his military service, he joined the border guard in 1936 and was later arrested for being drunk. He was able to escape from custody and passed the Swiss border to the German Reich in August 1940 after the beginning of World War II .

After Wipf had committed several criminal offenses, he was interned in November 1941 as an " undesirable foreigner and anti-social " in the SS special camp in Hinzert in the Hunsrück . There he was appointed room elder by the camp administration in January 1942. From autumn 1943 to June 6, 1944 he was senior chaplain . Then he was taken over into the Waffen-SS to the SS special unit Dirlewanger , where he reached the rank of Unterscharführer.

Shortly before the end of the war, he was arrested when crossing the border into Switzerland in May 1945 and later imprisoned. Blamed for several murders and acts of violence against prisoners, he was sentenced by a Zurich jury on July 6, 1948 to life imprisonment , minus 331 days of pre- trial detention , and to 8 years of loss of honor . Wipf died shortly after the verdict was announced in Zurich University Hospital . The cause of death was a blood disease.

literature

  • Linus Reichlin : War criminal Wipf, Eugen. Swiss in the Waffen SS, in German factories and at the desks of the Third Reich . Weltwoche, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85504-155-5

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincenz Oertle: final stop in Algeria: Swiss Foreign Legionnaires: thirteen life pictures from the 1950s (2007)
  2. ^ A b c d Albert Pütz: The SS special camp / Hinzert concentration camp 1940-1945: the indictment proceedings against Paul Sporrenberg: a legal documentation , page 116 (1998)
  3. ^ A b Albert Pütz: The SS special camp / Hinzert concentration camp 1940-1945: the indictment proceedings against Paul Sporrenberg: a legal documentation , page 114 (1998)
  4. ↑ Vincenz Oertle: "Should I not return from Russia ...": Swiss volunteers on the German side 1939-1945: a search for sources , page 346 (1997)
  5. ↑ Linus Reichlin: War criminal Wipf, Eugen. Swiss in the Waffen SS, in German factories and at the desks of the Third Reich . Page 7 (1994)
  6. ↑ 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 .
  7. ↑ Vincenz Oertle: "Should I not return from Russia ...": Swiss volunteers on the German side 1939-1945: a search for sources (1997)
  8. ^ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder, Verena Walter: Terror in the West: National Socialist Camps in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg 1940–1945 ; Berlin: Metropol, 2004; ISBN 3-936411-53-0
personal data
SURNAME Wipf, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prisoner functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Village on the Irchel
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1948
Place of death Zurich