Gustav Fink (SS member)

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Gustav Fink (born September 24, 1903 in Kollin , Pyritz district , † June 30, 1934 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German SS man. Fink was best known as a victim of the so-called Röhm putsch .

Live and act

In the 1920s and 30s, Fink earned his living primarily as a driver and chauffeur.

In 1933 Fink joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1,689,528) and the SA , and later also the SS (membership number 95,488). From September 1933 Fink was part of the security team at the Bredow concentration camp (called "Vulkan Torture Hell") built on the demolition site of the former Vulkan shipyard in Stettin-Bredow , which was closed in spring 1934.

Because of the cruelty he displayed in torturing and mistreating prisoners, Fink was, according to Retzlaff-Kresse, considered to be a “particularly notorious SS man” by the German public. Due to a case of prisoner abuse in the Bredow concentration camp that the public regarded as particularly bestial, Fink was sentenced to several years in prison by the criminal chamber of the Stettin Regional Court on April 6, 1934 , and was taken to the Gollnow prison to serve.

This condemnation is remarkable for the judicial history of National Socialism, as it is one of the few cases in which members of the Nazi regime were held accountable by the Nazi regime for offenses against the inmates of concentration camps.

On June 30, 1934, Fink, along with two other SS men, Joachim Hoffmann and Fritz Pleines , was shot dead by an SS execution platoon on the grounds of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler barracks in Berlin-Lichterfelde in the course of the Röhm affair . The official reason given for Fink's shooting was "prisoner abuse".

Archival material

  • Party correspondence on Gustav Fink (Federal Archives: holdings PK Film C 190, images 2837–2844)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig / Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel : Pommern 1934/35 , 1974, p. 223.
  2. Jump up ↑ Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig / Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel: Pommern 1934/35 , 1974, p. 223.
  3. ^ Drobisch / Wieland: System of the Nazi concentration camps, 1933-1939 , p. 98.
  4. ↑ Heinz Höhne: Mordsache Röhm , in: Der Spiegel 26/1984, p. 222ff.
  5. ↑ Bruno Retzlaff Kresse: Legality - Dungeon - Exile. Memories from the anti-fascist struggle , 1980, p. 346.
  6. ↑ Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig / Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel: Pommern 1934/35 , 1974, p. 223. Der Spiegel 261984 speaks of "sadistic prisoner abuse"
  7. ^ Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig / Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel: Pommern 1934/35 , p. 262.
  8. ^ Johannes Tuchel: Concentration Camp. Organizational history and function of the inspection of ... , 191, 1974, p. 177.
  9. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940 . 2001. p. 352.
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS man
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollin , Pyritz district
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1934
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde