Georg Rabe

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Karl Hermann Georg Rabe , also Raabe (* 11. June 1905 in Mulhouse ; † 9. September 1989 in Salzhausen ), was a German obersturmbannführer and head of the Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B .

Life

Rabe was the son of a merchant. He attended the community school and the grammar school in Eisenach , which he released early. In 1923 he took part in the Hitler putsch . From 1923 to 1927 he was a member of the Wiking Union . After completing an apprenticeship, he worked as a commercial clerk in various companies in Eisenach.

In June 1930 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 259544). From March 1931 to May 1932 he was a member of the SA . On June 1, 1932, he became a member of the SS (SS No. 54628). On December 1, 1935, he was employed at SD-Hauptamt I (Personnel Office). In August 1939 he was transferred to the SD head section in Prague , where he first performed his duties as a personnel officer and later became head of the Reich School of the Security Police and the SD. In 1942 he returned to the RSHA in Berlin . In the winter of 1943 he was transferred to Orel as the leader of Sonderkommando 7b and led the command until October 1944. In this function he was responsible for the shooting and gassing of so-called partisans, prison inmates and Jews . He was then assigned to Eastern Slovakia , where he was entrusted with the management of zbV Command 27.

In May 1945 he was arrested by American troops near Pilsen and then extradited to Soviet authorities. Until the end of 1949 he was a prisoner of war in the Caucasus . After his release he came to live with his family in Rotenburg near Hamburg . From 1952 he lived in Hamburg, where he worked in an export business and from 1956 to 1970 at AEG-Schiffsbau as an export clerk.

literature

  • Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the Annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . WBG, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3534259731

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945. Darmstadt 2013, pp. 198–199
  2. ^ French L. MacLean: The Field Men: the SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units . Schiffer Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-7643-0754-1 , p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Raven, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabe, Karl Hermann Georg (full name); Raabe, Georg; Raabe, Karl Hermann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Obersturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1989
Place of death Salzhausen