Gustav Adolf Nosske

This article deals with the SS-Obersturmbannführer and co-defendants in the Einsatzgruppen trial. For the SPD Reichswehr Minister see Gustav Noske

Gustav Nosske during the task force process

Gustav Adolf Nosske (born December 29, 1902 in Halle , † August 9, 1986 in Düsseldorf ) was involved in mass murders in the south-west of the Soviet Union as SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1941/1942 .

Nosske decided early on for a legal career and became a lawyer in Halle and Aachen . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 2.784.256) and the SS (membership number 290.213). During the time of National Socialism he became deputy head of the Gestapo in Aachen in 1935 and head of the Gestapo in Frankfurt (Oder) from September 1936 to June 1941 .

Three days before the Russian campaign , he became the leader of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D under the leadership of Otto Ohlendorf , with locations a. a. in Stalino and Novocherkassk . In event report 178 , he reported the murder of 1,515 people in Berlin for the period from February 16 to 28, 1942 alone ("721 Jews , 271 communists, 74 partisans and 421 gypsies and anti-social elements").

From April to October 1942 he was a consultant for eastern areas in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), until the beginning of 1943 he was head of Department IV D of the Gestapo (foreigners hostile to the state). He switched to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and was a liaison to the RSHA. From August 1943 to August 1944 he was head of the state police headquarters in Düsseldorf .

On April 10, 1948, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Einsatzgruppen trial . During the trial, Nosske had stated that in September 1944 he had protested against the order of the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Düsseldorf to round up and kill all Jews and " half-Jews " and that he had not carried out this order. He was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison on December 15, 1951. His whereabouts are unknown. It is known, however, that Nosske was interrogated as a witness on March 26, 1965 in the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. His place of residence was Düsseldorf, his job title was specified as Syndikus .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Düsseldorf registry office No. 5148/1986.
2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 439.
3. ↑ Holger Berschel: Bureaucracy and Terror: the Department of Jews of the Gestapo Düsseldorf 1935 - 1945 . Essen: Klartext, 2001 ISBN 3-89861-001-2 , p. 90f
4. ^ The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Criminal case against Mulka et al. a. 4 Ks 2/63 (December 20, 1963 - August 20, 1965) Register of witnesses and experts ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )