Franz Stuschka

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Franz Stuschka (born July 3, 1910 in Liesing ; † 1986 ) was an Austrian SS leader and employee in the Eichmann department of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). After the end of the war, Stuschka was sentenced to seven years in prison in Vienna .

biography

Stuschka, who had no completed school or professional training, received military training in Germany as an SS man in the Austrian Legion in 1936 . After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , he returned to Liesing and worked there from 1938 at the employment office. After his release, Stuschka worked in the “ Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna ” from 1939 . From there, after a short time, he moved to the “ Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague ”, which was being set up. Probably as early as 1940 Stuschka was transferred to the Eichmann department of the RSHA in Berlin, where he was censor for the Jewish prisoner mail from January 1942 onwards. In addition, he headed a work detachment of around 30 Jews in the Eichmann Department building for maintenance work, most of whom lived in " mixed marriages " and were therefore excluded from deportations. During operations, Stuschka abused members of the work command, as survivors reported after the end of the war. In the SS Stuschka rose to SS-Obersturmführer in 1942 .

From the beginning of March 1944, Stuschka headed an external command of the Theresienstadt ghetto in Wulkow as a commando - Command Zossen . The work detachment, which comprised around 240 prisoners, set up an alternate Gestapo quarters outside Berlin , some of which were also moved into in autumn 1944. The external command was given up due to the front in February 1945 and the prisoners were transferred back to Theresienstadt, which they reached on February 10, 1945. In March 1945 Stuschka was still responsible for a work detachment with 61 prisoners in Schnarchenreuth bei Hof . The command was supposed to build barracks on behalf of the RSHA. Due to the war situation, however, this project could not be carried out and the prisoners were also transferred back to Theresienstadt, which they reached on April 20, 1945.

After the end of the war

At the beginning of September 1946 he was arrested in Weinberg near St. Gilgen , and on October 16, 1947, the United Nations War Crimes Commission put him on the "A" list of war criminals with No. 6,633. Before the Vienna People's Court he was charged with ill-treatment, murder and aiding and abetting murder while working in the Wulkow and Schnarchenreuth external detachments. On December 17, 1949, Stuschka was sentenced to seven years in prison. In the 1960s, he and other members of the RSHA from Austria were investigated before the Vienna Regional Court , but the proceedings were discontinued on December 17, 1969.

A documentary filmmaker found Stuschka in 1985 in Vienna, where he lived in poor conditions. Stuschka denied in the documentary published on March 3, 1985 on ARD under the title “Wanted ... - Franz Stuschka, concentration camp commandant. Film by Paul Karalus “being a murderer. He was "much too good today". After his death he was buried on April 1, 1986 in the cemetery of the fire hall in Simmering (group E17, number 142).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann and his assistants. Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 55.
  2. ↑ Gabriele Anderl, Dirk Rupnow, Alexandra-Eileen Wenck, Historians Commission of the Republic of Austria: The Central Office for Jewish Emigration as a Robbery Institution. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, p. 120.
  3. ↑ Yaacov Lozowick : Malice in action (PDF; 235 kB). P. 32.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 614.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 294ff.
  6. ↑ External commands at www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  7. ↑ Nazi murderers arrested , digitized
  8. ↑ Franz Stuschka on www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  9. ^ Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider: Austrian concentration camp processes. An overview. In: Justice and Memory. Issue 12, December 2006, p. 15f.
  10. ↑ Lea Rosh : TV Review - Murderers Still Among Us. In: The time . March 8, 1985, issue 11
personal data
SURNAME Stuschka, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS-Obersturmführer and employee in the Eichmann department of the RSHA
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Liesing
DATE OF DEATH 1986