Fritz Schmoll

Fritz Schmoll (born May 25, 1913 in Ebschied , Simmern district ; † July 30, 1946 ) was a German police inspector, SS-Untersturmführer and head of the Gestapo camp Neue Bremm in Saarbrücken .

Life

Schmoll was the oldest of five children and spent the first few years of his life on his parents' farm. After attending the Catholic elementary school , he attended the commercial school in Bitburg between 1930 and 1933 . He then started in Schiffweiler a three-year apprenticeship in a grocery store .

Schmoll was Catholic but left the Church in 1939. At the same time, he called himself a believer in God .

Schmoll joined the NSDAP in 1933 . He was also a member of the SA and SS .

After working in his parents' company for around a year, Schmoll worked in the Moringen women's concentration camp until January 1939 . He then took up a career in the police force. His first job was with the state police in Hildesheim . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Warsaw and Wilhelmshaven followed as further stations . The professional advancement finally led him to the school of the security police and the SD in Bernau .

Schmoll became a candidate for inspector for the security police and then a full-time Gestapo employee. Between 1940 and 1942, in the SD office of the State Police in Wilhelmshaven, he was given the ideological attitude that would enable him to head a Gestapo camp with the rank of SS officer.

In February 1943 Schmoll started his service at the state police station in Saarbrücken . Among other things, he was responsible for setting up the Gestapo camp in Neue Bremm and was its camp commandant until November 1944. His slogan was "One Day, One Dead".

Schmoll was indicted in the Rastatt trial . He tried to prove to his accusers that he had to give up his chosen commercial career in favor of a job with the Secret State Police. His work in the Gestapo camp was purely administrative. However, the evidence and testimony presented during the trial showed that he ran the camp with extreme brutality and took over the " special treatment " of prisoners himself. He was responsible for ensuring that shootings were no longer carried out in secret, but in public in front of the inmates in the courtyard of the Gestapo camp.

Schmoll, who was primarily responsible for the conditions in the camp and for individual crimes, was found guilty and sentenced to death . The sentence was on July 30, 1946 enforced .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} http://www.jugendserver-saar.de/bilder/Neue_Bremm_25.7.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Neue Bremm online.de: Who were the perpetrators?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) (last checked on October 3, 2011)
3. ↑ BS Encyclopédie: Le camp de concentration de Neue Bremm (last checked on October 3, 2011)
4. ↑ Don't close your eyes - Elisabeth Thalhofer spoke to students at the Gymnasium am Stadtgarten. The recognized expert for the Neue Bremm police camp provided an insight into the everyday horror of the national-socialist terrorist state in her picture presentation. The police camp existed for a year. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. January 8, 2004, accessed June 4, 2018 . 
5. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
6. ^ Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigel: Dachauer Trials: Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945-1948. Procedure, results, aftermath . Wallstein Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3835301675 .
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.