Georg Kiessel

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Johann Georg Friedrich Kiessel , also Georg Kießel (born October 31, 1907 in Nuremberg , † December 30, 1950 in Belgrade ) was a German lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader.

Life

After attending school, Kiessel studied law and political science . He completed his studies in 1930 with the first state examination and did his doctorate at the University of Erlangen with the dissertation The provisions on high treason in the drafts of the new penal code compared with the current law, taking into account the Republic Protection Act of March 25, 1930 for Dr. jur. from. In April 1933 he passed the second state examination in law.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he entered the service of the Nuremberg-Fürth Police Department under Benno Martin on November 1, 1933 . Kiessel became Martin's deputy and also managed the Gestapo there.

Kiessel, who joined the NSDAP at the beginning of February 1934 ( membership number 2,584,531), also held the office of Gau culture warden from 1934. In October 1935 he became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 260.969). He also became a deputy in the central committee to ward off the Jewish boycott and atrocity incitement by Julius Streicher and, as part of aryanization measures , moved into the supervisory board of the Fuld concern in Nuremberg. From 1936 to 1937 he also ran the Gaudienststelle of the Nazi cultural community .

According to the Munich Agreement , in the last quarter of 1938 he was the liaison leader of the chief of Sipo and the SD with the chief of civil administration in Karlsbad . In 1939, Kiessel was temporarily appointed regional economic advisor in the Franconian region.

After the beginning of the Second World War , he was drafted into the military administration in June 1940, where he was appointed personal advisor to Harald Turner and his deputy on the administrative staff in Paris , Kronstadt , Sofia , Saloniki and from 1941 to November 1942 in Belgrade. As a senior war administrator in Yugoslavia, Kiessel was jointly responsible for the shooting of hostages and the extermination of Jews. In 1942 Kiessel was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords . In the course of Turner's dismissal from this post, Kiessel was also relieved of his deputy role. From January 1943 Kiessel was deployed in the Waffen SS .

From the early summer of 1944, Kiessel was employed in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Department IV (Gestapo), where after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, he was in charge of the evaluation department of the July 20 Special Commission. In October 1944 he reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer in the SS .

From December 1944 he was deployed as the executive commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Bromberg . In the course of the conquest of Bromberg by the Red Army , Kiessel was transferred to Bremen with the rank of senior government councilor in January 1945 as head of the state police control center there and held this position until the conquest of Bremen by British troops.

After the end of the war, Kiessel was interned by the Allies and extradited to Yugoslavia. Kiessel was sentenced to death by a Yugoslav military tribunal on March 7, 1947 for crimes committed in Yugoslavia and executed in Belgrade on December 30, 1950 .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nurnberg :. The Benno Martin case , Nuremberg 1974, p. 307f.
  2. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 119.
  3. ↑ Susanne Meinl, Jutta Zwilling: Legalized Robbery - The Plundering of the Jews under National Socialism by the Reich Finance Administration in Hesse . Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-593-37612-1 , p. 104
  4. ↑ Ekkehard Völkl : Der Westbanat 1941–1944: the German, Hungarian and other ethnic groups , Studia Hungarica, Volume 38, Trofenik, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-87828-192-7 , p. 51.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 307.
  6. ↑ Herbert Schwarzwälder : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Volume 4: Bremen in the Nazi era (1933-1945) . Christians, 1985, ISBN 3-7672-0911-X , p. 48.
  7. ↑ Susanne Rieger: A villa that made city history. Why Virchowstraße 19 is worthy of monument protection . In: Nürnberger Zeitung ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Kiessel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiessel, Johann Georg Friedrich (full name); Kießel, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Gestapo employee and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1950
Place of death Belgrade