Günther Rausch

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Günther Robert Rausch (also Günter Rausch , born May 19, 1909 in Sondershausen ; † November 12, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German SS leader. As leader of Sonderkommando 7b in the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD , he was involved in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union .

Life

Günther Rausch was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 224.360) and the SS. (SS number 17.852) He was trained at an SS Junker School before the outbreak of war and was an employee of the Reich Security Main Office .

From June 1941 to January / February 1942, Rausch led Sonderkommando 7b in Einsatzgruppe B in the war against the Soviet Union . Instead of Rausch, his deputy Waldemar Klingelhöfer took part in the briefing in Pretzsch . Under Rausch's leadership, Sonderkommando 7b arrived on June 24, 1941 together with the other units of Einsatzgruppe B in the Warsaw region in the Generalgouvernement . Sonderkommando 7b followed the advancing 2nd Army on the northern route and reached on 26/27. June Brest . There, Sonderkommando 7b murdered around 5,000 Brest Jews in the suburb of Kotelna with the help of Police Battalion 307. The further advance of the Sonderkommando first reached Baranowicze and on July 4th Minsk . From October to November 1941, the members of Sonderkommando 7b murdered under Rausch's leadership in the area around Orel , Brjansk , Klinzy and finally before Tula , the point of the furthest advance of Einsatzgruppe B, before the Wehrmacht was thrown back in the Battle of Moscow . On February 15, 1942, he was replaced as Kommandofführer by Adolf Ott .

His superior, the commander of Einsatzgruppe B and SS brigade leader Erich Naumann , was sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen trial after the war . Rausch's temporary deputy, Klingelhöfer, was also indicted in the same trial and sentenced to death. In the process, charges included a. Summarized task force reports from Sonderkommando 7b submitted, which fall during the command time of Rausch. From June 22nd to November 14th, 1941, Sonderkommando 7b reported the shooting of 1,822 people in the respective operational area. Between September and October 1941 he also reported 216 Jews shot in the Retschyza area in Belarus .

Rausch reached his highest rank in November 1942 when he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer . He was u. a. Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords.

From April 1944, Rausch was the commander of the Security Police and Security Service (KdS) for northern France, based in Lille (then known as Rijsel). His superior was the commander of the security police and the security service (BdS) for Belgium and northern France Constantin Canaris .

Rausch died on November 12, 1964 of leukemia in Hamburg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SS-Personalhauptamt (Ed.): List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel from October 1, 1943, entry no. 3462. (SS-Obersturmbannführer to SS-Sturmbannführer)
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Curilla: The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941-1944 . Paderborn 2006, p. 111.
  3. ^ A b Yitzhak Arad: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union . Lincoln 2009, pp. 126-127.
  4. ^ Yitzhak Arad: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union . Lincoln 2009, p. 163.
  5. ^ Yitzhak Arad: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union . Lincoln 2009, p. 199.
  6. ^ Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. , Vol. 4. District of Columbia 1950, p. 204.
  7. ^ Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. , Vol. 4. District of Columbia 1950, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Intoxication, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rausch, Günter; Intoxication, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS officer in Einsatzgruppe B
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1964
Place of death Hamburg