Fritz Braune

Karl Günther Fritz Braune (* July 18, 1910 in Mehrstedt ; † December 30, 1992 in Alsfeld ) was a convicted war criminal, employee in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and commander of a special command of Einsatzgruppe C during the invasion of the Soviet Union .

SS career in the time of National Socialism

On December 1, 1931, Fritz Braune joined the NSDAP ( membership number 498.084) and on November 1, 1935 the SS (membership number 272.564).

After the occupation of Norway in 1940, SS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Braune worked for the security service in Oslo .

During the invasion of the Soviet Union , he was from October 2, 1941, as the successor to Günther Herrmann, command leader of Sonderkommando 4b in Einsatzgruppe C , which followed Army Group South . Braune was thus a leader in the murder of Jews in occupied Ukraine . His brother, Werner Brown , led the Sonderkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D to. On March 21, 1942, Fritz Braune was replaced by Walter Haensch as command leader of Sonderkommando 4b .

Then he took up work in Department IA 4 (Personal Data of the SD) of the RSHA . On April 20, 1944 he was appointed SS-Obersturmbannführer .

After 1945

On January 12, 1973 Fritz Braune was sentenced by the Düsseldorf Regional Court to nine years in prison for participating in the killing of Soviet Jews and mentally ill Ukrainians in Poltava , Artemovsk , Vinnitsa , Kirovograd and Gorlowka .

Web links

• Reichssicherheitshauptamt.eu (Office I → IA 4)
• Nazisme: les Einsatzgruppen (2ième guerre mondiale) - Les bourreaux. Biographies (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Pohl: The Einsatzgruppe C . In: Peter Klein (editor): The task forces in the occupied Soviet Union 1941/42. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1997, pp. 71–87. ISBN 3-89468-200-0 . (Volume 6 of the publications of the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Center)
2. ↑ JuNSV procedure serial no. 784; LG Düsseldorf 730112 [8 Ks 3/70]