Georg Schraepel

Georg Schraepel (born June 26, 1898 in Braunschweig ; † January 4, 1969 in Bad Sachsa ) was a German lawyer , SS standard leader and head of the personnel office in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Biography until 1933

Schraepel was a participant in the First World War . From 1919 he began studying law . By 1926 he passed the two state law exams. On June 1, 1926, he began his career as a government assessor at the Holzminden district directorate and was hired from June 15, 1927 at the State Welfare Office in Braunschweig.

In 1928 he moved to the Braunschweig Police Headquarters, Division I: Commercial, Fire and Water Police, and also dealt with tasks relating to the processing of nationality. On April 1, 1930, he was appointed head of Department II in the Braunschweig Police Headquarters, the Braunschweig Criminal Police Office, with the rank of government councilor.

time of the nationalsocialism

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,803,114). From February 1, 1939 to April 15, 1939 he was assigned to the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA), followed by taking over the management of the Bochum criminal police station . He received the order to enlist in Einsatzgruppe I on August 17, 1939 in Vienna. There he spent two days studying the writing of Poland as a historical mortgage from SS-Standartenführer Franz Six , in order to then take part in the attack on Poland as a member of the staff of Einsatzgruppe I under the leadership of SS-Brigadführer Bruno Straßenbach.

The mission with the task force ended on November 19, 1939. From October 1, 1939 he took over the management of the criminal police in Office V of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Generalgouvernement in Krakow until March 31, 1941. He then changed on request von Linienbach joined the RSHA on April 1, 1941, as head of department IA / 3, which processed the personal details of the criminal police. He was promoted to the Oberregierungs- und Kriminalrat on June 21, 1941. On November 26, 1942, he joined the SS (membership no. 450.696), although he later claimed that this had happened in the course of the adjustment of rank . This formula was used by SS members after 1945 to deny voluntary membership of the SS.

On December 21, 1942 he was appointed government director. He was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer on November 9, 1943. He took over Section IA / 2 at the RSHA on November 22, 1943, after the previous head of SS-Hauptsturmführer Gustav vom Felde was killed in an air raid. From January 1944 on, he also headed Department IA / 4 in the RSHA, which processed the personal details of the Security Police (SiPo) and the Gestapo , taking over the official duties of SS-Obersturmbannführer Werner Braune . On May 31, 1944, he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer with effect from April 20, 1944. In one source it is stated that from 1945 he headed the personnel office in the RSHA.

Nuremberg Trial and Post-War Career

As part of the trial of the main war criminals in Nuremberg, he was questioned on November 27, 1946 at Camp Natternberg . In his personal information, he did not mention that he was a member of Einsatzgruppe I. In his statements on personnel issues from members of the Gestapo, he claimed that crimes within the service were severely punished . The bulk of the Gestapo officials, including the law enforcement officers, would only have learned about these crimes after the war had ended .

His legend about the Gestapo was also linked to a personal exonerating statement. In none of the conversations that he had with many officials in personal contact , he had learned a single criminal act, and no one had complained about such . So he had no knowledge of the crimes of the Gestapo. After three years of internment, he was released without charge.

In 1951 he was hired as a social affairs officer in Braunschweig and was also a judge at a social court. In 1961, he was appointed state social judge for the state of Lower Saxony . He is not known to have ever been investigated by a prosecutor.

The Berlin public prosecutor's office was investigating the RSHA. He was investigated in the 1 Js 4/65 (RSHA) proceedings.

literature

• The trial of the major war criminals. Volume XLII, Internationaler Military Court, Nuremberg 1949, pp. 304-310.
• Michael Foedrowitz : In Search of an Occupation Policy Concept - The Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Generalgouvernement. In: Gerhard Paul, Klaus-Michael Malmann (ed.): The Gestapo in the Second World War. "Home Front" and Occupied Europe. Darmstadt 2000.
• Michael Wildt : Radicalization and Self-Radicalization 1939 - The Birth of the Reich Security Main Office from the spirit of folk mass murder. In: Gerhard Paul, Klaus-Michael Malmann (ed.): The Gestapo in the Second World War. "Home Front" and Occupied Europe. Darmstadt 2000.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-100-39309-0 .
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional - The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office. (Habilitation thesis, University of Hannover 2001). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930-90887-5 .
• Reinhard Bein : Hitler's Brunswick staff. DöringDruck, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 256-261.