Gerhard Schneider (SS member)

Gerhard Oskar Paul Schneider (* 13. October 1913 in Magdeburg , † 21st September 2000 in Euskirchen ) was a German hauptsturmführer and partial detachment commander of Einsatzkommando 9 of Einsatzgruppe B .

Life

Gerhard Schneider was the son of a customs secretary. He attended the school of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale . In May 1933 he became a member of the SS . In September 1936 he began his service as a detective officer with the Gestapo Potsdam . After passing the exam in July 1938, he was officially accepted into the SS again and transferred to the state police station in Halle as an auxiliary crime commissioner. In 1940 he joined the NSDAP and was transferred to Department IV E3 (Abwehr West) of the RSHA in Berlin . After the campaign in the west , he became a member of a commission that supervised the transfer of German prisoners and prisoners of war from camps and prisons in Vichy France to Germany. In May 1941 he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 9 under the leadership of Alfred Filbert . At the beginning of July 1941 he arrived in Vilnius with this command . There and in other places he was involved in the murder of the Jewish population. When he was shot in Vilnius, he acted as a shooter. He also took part in the shooting of 100 people from the Jewish population of Molodeczno near Vilejka . As part of the commando leader, he directed the shooting of the Jewish population of Surash . In August 1941 he was transferred to the staff of Einsatzgruppe B in Smolensk . In September 1941 he returned to Berlin and continued his studies. In October 1942, Schneider passed his legal traineeship and began his preparatory service in Königsberg . After attending a driving school, he passed the great state examination for higher administrative service in autumn 1943 and was transferred to Danzig . There he worked as investigator and defense attorney before the SS and Police Court for the inspector of the Security Police and the SD . At the end of January 1945 he was assigned to the staff of Army Group Vistula as the SS liaison leader .

After the war he lived under the false name in the Lübeck region and worked for a farmer, then for a vegetable farmer in the Vierlande region . From November 1946 to August 1948 he was interned in Neuengamme . On July 20, 1948, he was sentenced to six months in prison by the Hamburg-Bergedorf verdict court for belonging to the SS. After his release, Schneider went to Schwanewede . The Hamburg District Court sentenced him to a fine on January 20, 1949 . On November 10, 1949, he was classified by the Stade Denazification Main Committee in category V of the exonerated . As a displaced person, he was involved in the construction of settlements in his new place of residence , which is why he was appointed to the district's building committee in 1950. He became 1st chairman of the local association and 2nd chairman of the district association of expellees , chairman of the parents' council at the school and arbitrator in Schwanewede. In autumn 1952 he joined the BHE ( Federation of the Homeless and Disenfranchised ) and was elected to the local council. In the same year he became a member of the district council of the BHE and 2nd deputy district administrator. In 1953 he was unemployed. In May 1956 he found a job with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics and Transport. On 21 May 1959 he was arrested, but from on May 24, 1964 remand dismissed. The Berlin Regional Court sentenced him on 28 March 1966 because of aid for murder in three cases to six years in prison . The judgment became final by a decision of the Federal Court of Justice on October 28, 1966 .

literature

• Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society. WBG, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society, Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 267–270.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla : The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941-1944 . 2nd edition, Ferdinand Schönigh Verlag, Paderborn, 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-71787-0 . P. 411.