Gustav Völpel

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Gustav Ludwig Völpel (born May 12, 1901 , † February 8, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German executioner and petty criminal.

Life

Völpel had lived in Berlin since 1918 and worked as a warehouse worker and then as a film copier at Ufa in Babelsberg until 1939. He was sentenced to death in the Third Reich for undermining military strength, pardoned in the second instance to 15 years in prison and was then an inmate in Dachau concentration camp until the end of the war.

On May 8, 1945, the office of executioner was brought into being by the four occupying powers of Berlin. Völpel received this post and became an employee of the penal system. Since then he has been used as an executioner for war criminals and murderers. During this time he was involved in the criminal machinations of Werner Gladow and on March 28, 1948, he was charged with street robbery and grievous bodily harm before the Berlin-Mitte lay judge . The process had to be repeated because Völpel had to execute three death sentences as an executioner in Dresden and could not appear in court. He was sentenced to two months in prison.

This did not prevent him from committing further crimes with the student Hans Gerhard Glauche in November 1948; he was sentenced to two years imprisonment, among other things, for presumption of office. He served another seven-year prison sentence in the Tegel correctional facility , from which he was released in 1957.

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SURNAME Völpel, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Völpel, Gustav Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German executioner
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1901
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1959
Place of death Berlin