Franz Konrad (SS member)
Franz Konrad (born March 1, 1906 in Liesing , Lower Austria ; † September 8, 1951 in Warsaw ) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and as an administrative officer responsible for the "valuation" in the Warsaw ghetto , who was executed as a war criminal . Konrad was responsible for the robbery of Jewish property in the Warsaw ghetto (cf. Raubgold ).
Life
Franz Konrad, son of a miner, worked after finishing school as a salesman in the food industry and then until 1931 as branch manager of a consumer association. After that Konrad was unemployed and in 1932 he joined the Austrian NSDAP ( membership number 1.085.499) and the SS (SS number 46.204). Konrad, member of Lebensborn e. V. , had been married since 1931 and subsequently had three children. After the NSDAP ban in Austria on June 19, 1933, Konrad led SS-Sturm 5 / II / 38. Konrad was arrested for participating in the July coup in 1934 and interned in the Wöllersdorf detention center . After fleeing Austria in July 1935, Konrad came to the German Reich and received military training in the SS camp Weissenfeld, now also as a member of the Waffen SS . He then completed administrative training and after the “ Anschluss ” he returned to Austria in April 1938 as a full-time SS leader and administrative leader of SS Section XXXV, Sturmbann III / 94.
In November 1939, after the outbreak of World War II , Konrad was called up to Warsaw as a full-time administrative officer of the general SS and Oberscharführer of the Waffen SS . After further training at the administration school with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler , Konrad was responsible for the construction and furnishing of troop accommodation and the confiscation of goods for the troops. Until mid-June 1942 Konrad acted as the troop's catering officer and then became head of the “value recording” in the Warsaw ghetto for theft of Jewish property. This department was subordinate to the SS and Police Leader in Warsaw Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg and was responsible for requisitioning , sorting and forwarding Jewish assets, funds, furnishings and machines. In addition, from the end of April 1942 he was employed by the Inspector of Riding and Driving in Warsaw.
From April 1, 1943, Konrad was posted to the SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik in Lublin and assigned to Ostindustrie GmbH . From there he was made available to Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, the SS and Police Leader in Warsaw , and initially continued to function as the head of the valuation of Jewish property in the Warsaw ghetto. During the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto , Konrad took part in its suppression and on April 19, 1943 led a group of Jews to the Umschlagplatz , where they were liberated by Jewish resistance fighters. However, Konrad was able to escape. In the course of 1943 Konrad was then busy with the inspection of the Włodawa prisoner of war camp , which was to be converted into a labor camp. He was also entrusted with recording values in the Białystok ghetto , relocating it and expanding the machinery in the remaining Warsaw ghetto. At the end of 1943, Konrad stopped working for Ostindustrie GmbH and from January 3, 1944, he was the administrative manager of the SS-Remonteamt Fischhorn-Bruck-Fusch .
After the war, Konrad was arrested and in the "trial of Stroop and Konrad" for participating in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto to the death by the strand convicted. On September 8, 1951, Konrad was executed in Warsaw .
NSDAP internal awards
| Konrad's SS ranks | |
|---|---|
| date | rank |
| January 1939 | SS-Untersturmführer |
| July 1941 | SS-Obersturmführer |
| February 1944 | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
- Ehrenwinkel the old fighters
- SS civil badge
- SS skull ring
- Julleuchter
Military awards in World War II
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class with swords, 1940
- Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class, 1942
- Medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42
- War Merit Cross (1939) 1st class with swords, 1944
literature
- Joachim Jahns: The Warsaw Ghetto King. Dingsda, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-928498-99-9 .
- Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Joseph Wulf : The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Arani, Berlin 1961.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konrad, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liesing |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1951 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |