Friedrich Heinicke

Friedrich Heinicke (born June 7, 1892 in Chemnitz , † November 4, 1950 in Waldheim executed) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and commander in the Torgau Wehrmacht prison .

The trained businessman became a lieutenant in the imperial army in 1912 and a captain in the Reichswehr in 1920 . In 1940 he rejoined the Wehrmacht as a captain and on January 1, 1941, was major in command of the Wehrmacht prison Torgau-Brückenkopf, one of the two in Torgau (next to " Fort Zinna " under Heinrich Remlinger ). There he was considered the "executioner of Torgau", where over 1000 death sentences were carried out and numerous tortures occurred. He personally participated in an unclear number of executions. Torgau was the seat of the Reich Court Martial from 1943 to 1945 . At the time of the evacuation in April 1945, gruesome crimes occurred.

After internment in special Soviet camps until 1950, he was sentenced to death in the Waldheim trials , his appeal was discarded and he was executed on November 4, 1950.

Heinicke was a member of the Reichskolonialbund in 1933 and a member of the NSKK in 1935 . He is not to be confused with Ernst Heinicker, who was also executed .

literature

Michael Eberlein, Norbert Haase, Wolfgang Oleschinski: Torgau in the hinterland of the Second World War. Military justice, Wehrmacht prisons, Reich court martial . Series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, Vol. 6, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-378-01039-8 .
Kai Fortelka: The radicalization of military justice in the "Third Reich" , master's thesis 2000, p. 102 ISBN 978-3-832428105 google books

Manfred Messerschmidt : What was right then: Nazi military and criminal justice in the war of extermination , clear text, Essen 1996

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SURNAME	Heinicke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Wehrmacht officer and commander in the Torgau Wehrmacht prison
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH	November 4th 1950
Place of death	Waldheim