Gotthard Schubert

Gotthard Schubert (born August 1, 1913 in Hönigern , Silesia , † April 3, 1985 in Wiesbaden ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer , head of the security police and SD branch in Zamość and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Schubert was the son of an estate manager. In May 1933 he joined the NSDAP . In April 1936 he worked at the land registry in Racibórz . Since January 1939 he was a member of the SS . In March 1939 he became department head of the Stapostelle Troppau in Sudetenland . In the same year he was a member of Einsatzkommando 3 of Einsatzgruppe 1 . At the end of December 1939 he was transferred to Division IV (Gestapo) at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) Lublin . In June 1941 he became head of the Security Police and SD Zamość branch of the KdS Lublin. Schubert took part in the harvest festival , in which 14,000 Jews were shot in the Majdanek concentration camp and the Poniatowa labor camp .

After the war in May 1945, Schubert was taken prisoner by the Soviets. On May 15, 1950, he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor for his work in the Gestapo. In 1955 he was released from Soviet custody. From January 1, 1957, he served in the Hessian police service. In 1960 he became the head of the reporting department at the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Wiesbaden . He was then held in custody until August 17, 1961. He then worked first in his brother-in-law's grocery store, then in his wife's tobacco shop in Wiesbaden. The Wiesbaden Regional Court sentenced him to 6 years imprisonment on March 1, 1973 for aiding and abetting the murder of over 28,000 people.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Jochen Böhler : Dance of Death. The investigation into the "harvest festival". The Schubert process . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Andrej Angrick (ed.): The Gestapo after 1945. Careers, conflicts. Constructions . WBG, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20673-5 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 561.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Jochen Böhler: Dance of Death. The investigation into the "harvest festival". The Schubert process . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Andrej Angrick (ed.): The Gestapo after 1945. Careers, conflicts. Constructions ., Darmstadt 2009, p. 248.
↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler, Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and Documentation , WBG, Darmstadt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 , p. 106.

personal data
SURNAME	Schubert, Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Untersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hönigern , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1985
Place of death	Wiesbaden

[Klee-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 561.

[Böhler-2] Jochen Böhler: Dance of Death. The investigation into the "harvest festival". The Schubert process . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Andrej Angrick (ed.): The Gestapo after 1945. Careers, conflicts. Constructions ., Darmstadt 2009, p. 248.

[3] Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler, Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and Documentation , WBG, Darmstadt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 , p. 106.