Franz Xaver Trenkle
Franz Xaver Trenkle (born August 2, 1899 in Pfronten ; † May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and employed as deputy protective custody camp leader of the Dachau concentration camp and protective custody camp leader of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .
Life
Trenkle, widowed and father of four children, had been a member of the SS since 1932 . From November 1933 Trenkle was deployed in the Dachau concentration camp and acted there as block leader until the spring of 1936. Subsequently, Trenkle was the command leader in several satellite camps of the Dachau concentration camp. From May 1938 Trenkle was deployed as a commando leader in the St. Gilgen satellite camp on Lake Wolfgang, incorrectly referred to as St. Wolfgang. There he and two other SS men were responsible for monitoring initially ten concentration camp inmates who were supposed to build a private villa there for the camp commandant Hans Loritz . After the Neuengamme concentration camp was established, Trenkle was assigned a report leader there in 1940 and then probably transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In November 1942 he returned to the Dachau concentration camp for camp service, where he acted as a report leader and deputy protective custody camp leader until March 1944. Then Trenkle was the protective custody camp leader in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp until early January 1945. From January 6, 1945, Trenkle again acted as a commanding officer and monitored concentration camp prisoners in the subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp in Lauingen . From the beginning of April 1945 to April 29, 1945 Trenkle was the command leader in the Munich-Riem airfield camp of the Todt Organization .
After the end of the war, Trenkle was arrested, on November 15, 1945 in the main Dachau trial, which took place as part of the Dachau trials , charged as a war criminal by a US military court , and on December 13, 1945 for “helping and participating in the crimes in the concentration camp Dachau ”and thirty-five other co-defendants were sentenced to death by hanging . The execution of executions ordered by the Gestapo as well as the mistreatment and killing of prisoners were taken into account as individual acts of excess at Trenkle . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .
literature
- Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 (PDF; 40.9 MB; English)
- Dirk Riedel: Vigilante and mass murderer in the service of the "Volksgemeinschaft": The concentration camp commandant Hans Loritz. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-63-3 , p. 379 f. ( History of the concentration camps 1933–1945 , 12)
- Detlef Garbe : Between resistance and martyrdom. The Jehovah's Witnesses in the “Third Reich”. 4th edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56404-8 ( Studies on Contemporary History , 42M at the same time: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1989).
- 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 .
- Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Family book Pfronten, approx. 1880, community register
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel , Angelika Königseder (eds.): The place of terror: history of the National Socialist concentration camps . CH Beck, 2006; P. 493 f.
- ↑ Detlef Garbe: Between Resistance and Martyrdom: The Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich . 1998, p. 413
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trenkle, Franz Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Hauptscharführer and protective custody camp leader in concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pfronten |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1946 |
| Place of death | Landsberg War Crimes Prison |