Friedrich Meyer (SS member)

Friedrich Hugo Meyer (* 3. December 1912 in Dortmund , † 21st July 2001 in Münster ) was a German hauptsturmführer and partial detachment commander of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B .

Life

Meyer was the son of a train driver. After graduating from school in 1932, he studied Protestant theology in Marburg , Münster and Bethel , but dropped out in the winter semester of 1937/38. In 1933 he joined the SA and in 1937 the NSDAP . He then worked for Bochumer Anzeiger until he was hired there on November 13, 1938, and attended evening commercial school. In 1940 he became a member of the SS .

From late 1940 to early 1943 he studied law in Münster , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . In May 1941 he was seconded to the border police school in Pretzsch an der Elbe and assigned to special command 7a. As a part of the commando leader, he took part in the shooting of at least 200 Jews in Vitebsk . After his return he continued his studies and, after passing the intermediate examination in 1943, worked for a short time as a trainee lawyer at the District Office in Starnberg and for the District President in Munich . From there he was transferred in April 1943 to the Reich School of the Security Police and the SD in Prague . In 1944 he became head of training at the BdS Strasbourg .

After the war he worked as a wood carver in Freudenberg . He then moved to his hometown of Dortmund , where he first found a job in the driver's office of a British unit and then with the Civil Labor Office of the 10th Anti-Tank Regiment of the British Army . In June 1949 Meyer was classified as "exonerated" by a court in Dortmund. Meyer had been a civil servant for life since 1950 . In 1956 he was appointed chief superintendent appointed and changed in the same year as an instructor at the Police Institute Hiltrup where he trained not only the top officials of the Criminal Investigation Department from all over Germany, but also as a teacher and supervisor for course participants from Afghanistan , Iran and China responsible was. Meyer was heard as a witness in the proceedings against Alfred Filbert . In 1961 he was transferred to the Bochum criminal police and later to Gelsenkirchen . On February 16, 1962, he was arrested for his activities with Sonderkommando 7a. The Essen District Court sentenced him to two years in prison on December 22, 1966 for aiding and abetting murder ; however, the sentence had already been served due to the pre- trial detention .

literature

• Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society. WBG, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 260–261.
2. ^ Proceedings in justice and Nazi crimes