Günther Knobloch

Günther Knobloch , Günter (* 13. May 1910 in Breslau , † 1970 in Kronach ) during was the Nazi era hauptsturmführer , deputy leader of the Task Force II in Poland and from 1941 clerk for the "event messages of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR ”in Section IV A 1 of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

Life

Origin and studies

Knobloch was born the son of a brewery director. The grandfathers of the Protestant family were miners and tailors. After graduating from high school in 1930, Knobloch studied law in Breslau and Rostock . In 1936 he passed the 2nd state examination as a court assessor.

At the Gestapo

Knobloch joined the NSDAP as early as 1932 (membership number 1.025.597) and began working for the Gestapo . In 1937/38 he attended the driving school of the Security Police in Berlin-Charlottenburg and received his doctorate in November 1938. jur. Appointed detective inspector in February 1939 , Knobloch came to the state police station in Opole and from July 1939 to the police headquarters in Gleiwitz .

With the "Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police" in Poland

During the attack on Poland , Knobloch was deployed as the deputy head of Einsatzgruppe II, Emanuel Schäfer , of the " Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police ". After the task force was disbanded, he was employed by the Gestapo in Katowice .

In the Reich Security Main Office

In August 1941 Knobloch was ordered back to Berlin and, as SS-Hauptsturmführer in Section IV A 1 ( Communism , Marxism and subsidiary organizations, war crimes , illegals and enemy propaganda: Head of SS-Sturmbannführer and criminal director Josef Vogt) of the RSHA, he was responsible for processing the " USSR incident reports " . These were reports that had to be submitted to the RSHA by the Einsatzkommandos via the Einsatzgruppenführer, in which the activities, including the number of killings, of the individual units were meticulously listed. In the RSHA, the reports were collected, evaluated and given as a secret Reichssache in a compilation to a small selected distribution group. After the war, the "incident reports" found by the RSHA served as one of the most important written evidence in the Nuremberg trial .

After the war

At the end of April 1945 Günther Knobloch was taken prisoner by the Americans near Kufstein . He was released from this in autumn 1948. He then worked as an unskilled worker, commercial clerk and finally as a department manager at Siemens AG in Redwitz adRodach .

Various investigations by the public prosecutor's offices in Coburg , Dortmund and Berlin against Knobloch have been set. In the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial against Bernhard Fischer-Schweder and other defendants, Knobloch testified as a witness to the "incident reports".

Günther Knobloch died in Kronach in 1970.

literature

• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH, Hamburg, 2002. ISBN 3-930908-75-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Günther Knobloch in the Rostock matriculation portal