Fritz Dietrich (Chief of Police)

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Von Dietrich ordered a curfew for Jews in Libau on December 12, 1941, which was published on December 13, 1941.

Fritz Dietrich (born August 6, 1898 in Lafraun ; † October 22, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was an Austrian SS leader and police chief in Saarbrücken at the time of National Socialism .

Life

After attending school, Dietrich took part in the First World War as a soldier and received several awards. He then completed a chemistry degree , which he completed with a doctorate . From 1930 Dietrich took on special assignments for the NSDAP and was a leader in the July coup in Styria in 1934 . From 1935 to 1936 he was employed in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. Dietrich was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,674,343) and the SS (SS number 280,034).

From the end of 1936 Dietrich worked for the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD), initially as a staff leader in Münster and Munich and later as a subsection leader in Saarbrücken. At the end of 1939 Dietrich was released from the SD after investigations into him for embezzlement. In the SS, Dietrich was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in September 1941 .

After the start of the German-Soviet War , Dietrich was deployed from September 1941 to November 1943 as SS police and site leader in Libau , Latvia . On December 12, 1941, Dietrich ordered a curfew for Jews in Libau. This was a preparatory measure for the Šķēde massacre . On December 31, 1941, Wolfgang Kügler , the leader of a sub-command of Einsatzgruppe A, informed Dietrich that 2,731 Jews and 23 communists had been murdered.

From April 1944, Dietrich was initially acting and from July 1944 officially police chief of Saarbrücken. In addition, Dietrich took on posts in Saarbrücken as combat commander, Wehrmacht commander in chief , chairman of the court martial and public air raid protection officer. In the summer of 1944, Jürgen Stroop gave Dietrich personally the orally given “flight order”, which provided for the murder of Allied pilots who had not landed. In July / August 1944 Dietrich ordered the shooting of a total of seven arrested Allied airmen who had landed in an emergency. The pilots were picked up from the detention centers in Malstatt, Burbach and Neunkirchen and shot from behind in a forest "on the run". In one case, a victim survived seriously injured and was found the next morning. Dietrich ordered the seriously injured to be killed by an injection, but this failed. Then this pilot was also shot.

After the end of the war , Dietrich was interned by the Allies. On June 30, 1947, Dietrich and seven other accused were indicted before an American military court during the aviation trials as part of the Dachau trials . Dietrich denied having received or passed on the flight order, nor heard of it or ordered the murder of pilots. Dietrich was sentenced to death on July 15, 1947 for his involvement in the aviator murders . On 22 October 1948 he was in prison for war criminals Landsberg by the train executed .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Banach: Heydrichs Elite. Collection Schöningh on the past and present. The Führer Corps of the Security Police and the SD 1936–1945 , F. Schöningh, 1998, ISBN 3-506-77506-5 , p. 280
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 110
  3. ↑ Fritz Dietrich on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. ↑ Peter Englund: Humanity at Zero. From the abyss of the 20th century. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2001. ISBN 3-608-93547-9 , p. 159
  5. ↑ cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 110
  6. ↑ a b Klaus Zimmer: "You are next in line". Shootings of airmen in the Saarbrücken area . (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  7. ↑ Case No. 12-1545 & 12-2272 (US vs. Fritz Dietrich et al) on www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police president and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafraun
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1948
Place of death Landsberg am Lech