Heinrich Bergmann (SS member)

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Heinrich Bergmann (born November 21, 1902 in Kassel ; † 1980 ) was a German police officer and SS leader who was employed by the commander of the security police and the SD in Estonia .

Life

After attending school, Bergmann tried unsuccessfully to pursue a career as a professional soldier in the German army, worked in a volunteer corps and participated in the suppression of the Kapp Putsch . Bergmann switched to the police service in 1923 and was employed by the protective police. At the time of National Socialism , he joined the NSDAP in 1937 and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1939. In the meantime he switched to the criminal police and qualified in this context in 1938 after training at the driving school of the security police in Berlin-Charlottenburg as a detective inspector. Bergmann then worked at the police control center in Stuttgart .

After the attack on the Soviet Union , Bergmann was deployed in Estonia from around the end of November 1941 with the commander of the security police and SD Martin Sandberger in Reval . Bergmann headed the AV (criminal police) department under Sandberger and also represented the Gestapo in Reval. Other functions were the management of the Pleskau and Krasnoye Selo branches . He was also the leader of a sub-command of Einsatzgruppe A in Luga , whose task it was to fight partisans. In March 1944 Bergmann took over the management of Division A IV ( Gestapo ) until the Wehrmacht withdrew from Estonia in September 1944. In 1943, Bergmann was promoted to Hauptsturmführer within the SS . Bergmann ordered numerous "special treatments", i. H. the murder of people. He organized and participated in mass executions of Jews and is complicit in the murder of 243 so-called gypsies who were shot in the Harku labor education camp on October 27, 1942 . Bergmann was awarded the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords in 1944 .

From autumn 1944 Bergmann was still working in Department VI at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Towards the end of the war he was in Innsbruck with colleagues from the RSHA . After Schenk, Bergmann moved to Division IV (Gestapo) of the RSHA in autumn 1944.

In August 1945, Bergmann lived again in Germany without having adopted a false name. From 1955 he worked as a civil servant in the Federal Criminal Police Office. Bergmann was promoted to detective commissioner at the BKA in 1956 and worked a. a. in the section for training and proficiency tests. He retired in 1962.

As part of a public prosecutor's investigation into the complex of crimes in Estonia in the area of ​​KdS Reval, Bergmann was interrogated in 1960 and transferred to custody in 1967. Faced with the allegations, Bergmann partially confirmed his responsibility for the crimes, but justified himself by pointing out that there was an emergency . The proceedings instituted against him were discontinued in 1970 due to "health problems". Bergmann died in 1980.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Bettina Birn: Heinrich Bergmann - a German detective career . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Gerhard Paul: Careers of violence. National Socialist perpetrator biographies , Darmstadt 2004, p. 47
  2. ↑ a b c d Ruth Bettina Birn: Heinrich Bergmann - a German crime career . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Gerhard Paul: Careers of violence. National Socialist perpetrator biographies , Darmstadt 2004, p. 48
  3. ↑ a b Dieter Schenk: Preliminary remarks on the paperback edition (PDF; 16 kB), 2003
  4. ↑ Ruth Bettina Birn: Heinrich Bergmann - a German detective career . In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Gerhard Paul: Careers of violence. National Socialist perpetrator biographies , Darmstadt 2004, p. 48ff.
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1980