Heinrich Jöckel

Heinrich Jöckel (born July 10, 1898 in Offenbach am Main , † October 26, 1946 in Litoměřice , Czechoslovakia (executed)) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , commander of the 1st company of the SS Guard Battalion Bohemia and Moravia and from 1940 to 1945 Commander of the Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt .

Life

Jöckel, a soldier in World War I after his apprenticeship , worked as a worker after his discharge from military service. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 763.122). In autumn 1939 Jöckel was the camp commandant in the Skrochowitz concentration camp in the Troppauer Ländchen. Jöckel, who previously worked for the Prague Gestapo , became the commandant of the Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt in June 1940 , where he was involved in the mistreatment and murder of prisoners. He is also said to have denied medical help to Jewish prisoners and assigned them to the most difficult work detachments. Jöckel, whose family was also there, had 53 prisoners executed in early May 1945. On May 5, 1945, Jöckel and his family left Theresienstadt, three days before Theresienstadt was liberated by the Red Army . While on the run, he separated from his family and went into hiding in Offenbach. On July 1, 1945, Jöckel was arrested by the American counterintelligence service and extradited to Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1946 . Jöckel was in custody in the Small Fortress from January 26, 1946 , and his wife and eldest daughter followed him a few days later. Jöckel stayed here until the beginning of his trial before the extraordinary people's court in Litoměřice. He was sentenced to death for the mistreatment and murder of prisoners and executed by hanging on October 26, 1946 .

literature

• Mass murderer Jöckl sentenced to death. In: Wiener Kurier , October 25, 1946, page 8

Web links

• Short biography of Jöckel