Fritz Woehrn

Fritz Oskar Karl Wöhrn , spelling also Woehrn (* March 12, 1905 in Rixdorf ; † December 18, 1979 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer (1942) and clerk in the Eichmannreferat of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).

biography

Wöhrn, son of a lithographer , started his career as a police officer in Berlin's police headquarters in 1926 . After passing the exam for the senior police administration service in 1929, he was transferred to the Oberhausen Police Headquarters in 1930, where he worked as a police chief secretary. In May 1933 Wöhrn joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,863,618) and in 1937 the SS (SS number 280.238). From February 1935 he worked at the Secret State Police Office in Berlin in the department " Jews , Freemasons , Emigrants". Wöhrn, who held the rank of SS-Obersturmführer from 1938 , was from November 1940 clerk in Department IVB4 (Judenreferat) in the RSHA. His area of responsibility there included the area of " mixed race issues and mixed marriages " and from the beginning of 1941 to the end of 1944 the processing of protective custody cases in the Jewish department. His task consisted in arranging for the protective custody department at the RSHA to send Jews to concentration camps "who had been denounced for violating the 'special provisions for non-Aryans'". He also supervised the Reich Association of Jews in Germany and the Jewish Hospital Berlin .

Shortly before the end of the war, Wöhrn organized an identification card in his real name, but with false professional information.

After the end of the war

From 1948 Wöhrn was employed as a sales representative for electrical goods and lived in Bad Neuenahr . In 1963 he submitted an application for re-use for the police service to the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia , which made his whereabouts apparent. After his arrest in 1967 Wöhrn was before the Berlin Regional Court for aid to murder accused and after a review by the Federal Court sentenced on 6 April 1971, twelve years in prison. In particular, Wöhrn was accused of participating in the "induction of Jewish mixed marriages into concentration camps". In addition, he and Eichmann's deputy, Rolf Günther, took part in the “community action” in Berlin, during which 500 members of the Jewish community were selected for deportation on October 20, 1942 . In March 1943 he was also involved in the selection of 300 employees at the Jewish Hospital Berlin. He was also accused of having deported Jews from so-called neutral states, since Jews whose passports from neutral states were intercepted in the mail were deported to Auschwitz because of his actions . Wöhrn, according to the court, was guided by the “hatred of Jews” by his superiors in the RSHA and was “one of the most radical and well-known functionaries of the Jewish Department”. Nothing is known about the further life of Wöhrn.

literature

Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. 33). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-1614-7687-5 (also: Hannover, Universität, Dissertation, 1999).
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer. 16048). 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ continuously with Beate Meyer: Deadly tightrope walk. The Reich Association of Jews in Germany between Hope, Coercion, Self-Assertion and Entanglement (1939–1945) (= Hamburg Contributions to the History of German Jews. 38). Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0933-3 .

↑ Death register of the Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler registry office No. 486/1979.

↑ ^a ^b Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 683 f.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes. Tübingen 2002, p. 210 ff .

↑ ^a ^b Quoted from: Processes. Reich Security Main Office. Mord und Met. In: Der Spiegel . Vol. 22, No. 37, of September 9, 1968, pp. 94–96, here p. 96, ( digital version (PDF; 412 kB) ).

↑ Justice and Nazi crimes ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2013 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. @1@ 2
↑ Regional Court Berlin October 13, 1969, KS 1/69 (ZStL: VI 415 AR 1310/63, collective file No. 341), quoted in: Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes. Tübingen 2002, p. 214.

personal data
SURNAME	Woehrn, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wöhrn, Fritz Oskar Karl (full name); Woehrn, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Hauptsturmführer and clerk in the Jewish department of the RSHA
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH	18th December 1979
Place of death	Bad Neuenahr

[1] tinuously with Beate Meyer: Deadly tightrope walk. The Reich Association of Jews in Germany between Hope, Coercion, Self-Assertion and Entanglement (1939–1945) (= Hamburg Contributions to the History of German Jews. 38). Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0933-3 .

[2] Death register of the Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler registry office No. 486/1979.

[Klee683f.-3] Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 683 f.

[Freudiger-4] Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes. Tübingen 2002, p. 210 ff .

[Mord_und_Met-5] Quoted from: Processes. Reich Security Main Office. Mord und Met. In: Der Spiegel . Vol. 22, No. 37, of September 9, 1968, pp. 94–96, here p. 96, ( digital version (PDF; 412 kB) ).