Franz Podezin

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Franz Podezin (* 1911 in Vienna ; † around 1995 ) was in the market town of Rechnitz in Burgenland of the NSDAP - Ortsgruppenführer , SS-Sturmscharführer and head of the local Gestapo office.

Life

Podezin was the local group leader and Gestapo officer in Rechnitz and responsible for the Rechnitz I sub-section during the construction of the south-east wall , where Jewish forced laborers were used. He is considered to be one of the main people responsible for the Rechnitz massacre on March 24 and 25, 1945 .

After the war he worked on behalf of the Americans for the BND in the GDR. He returned to the West and lived in Kiel as an inconspicuous insurance employee until 1963 . When the Dortmund public prosecutor opened proceedings against him for multiple murders in 1963, he fled to Denmark and from there to Switzerland, where he blackmailed Margit von Batthyány and the former Batthyány estate manager Hans Joachim Oldenburg from a hotel in Basel . Podezin was last seen in Johannesburg , South Africa, where he was subtenant of Josef Helmut Hansel and lived not far from Alexandra . The company Hytec, for which he worked in South Africa, is said to still work with Thyssen-Krupp today . Podezin died in the mid-1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janke, Pia / Kovacs, Theresa / Schenkermayr, Christian: "The endless innocence". Elfriede Jelineks Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) , Present Verlag, Vienna 2010
  2. ↑ http://www.refugius.at/zip/anklageschrift.pdf ( Memento from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Stefan Klemp: Good comrades. Historian Stefan Klemp investigates the role of the German postwar criminal justice system in aiding the perpetrators of the Rechnitz massacre. October 29, 2007, accessed on April 20, 2018 (English, translation of an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung).
  4. ↑ Janke, Pia / Kovacs, Theresa / Schenkermayr, Christian: "The endless innocence". Elfriede Jelineks Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) , Present Verlag, Vienna 2010
  5. ↑ Sacha Batthyany: The horror of Rechnitz. Shortly before the end of the war, 180 Jews were murdered by guests at a castle festival in an Austrian village. Margit von Batthyány-Thyssen was the host - and the great-aunt of our author. April 22, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Podezin, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Sturmscharführer and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH around 1995