Heinrich Noa

Karl Heinrich Noa (born August 23, 1910 in Erfurt , † September 24, 1972 in Kassel ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , part of the commando leader of Sonderkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Heinrich Noa was the son of the furniture manufacturer August Noa. He attended elementary school and then the secondary school. At the Reformrealgymnasium in Langensalza he passed the school leaving examination in 1931. He then studied medicine at the universities of Marburg and Jena for four semesters from 1933 to 1934 . Because of financial problems he dropped out of his studies.

On June 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP . In July 1932 he became a member of the SS . From October 24, 1934, he served in the 17 Infantry Regiment in Löbau . As a private in the reserve, he finished his military service on October 12, 1935. From December 1, 1935, he was employed by the state police station in Münster as a detective assistant candidate. In November 1937 he passed the exam in the course for commissioners at the school of the security police in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He was then transferred from the headquarters of the Berlin Security Police to the Karlsruhe State Police Headquarters, where he worked in Department III of the Abwehr. In July 1938 he was appointed head of the Breisach Border Police Commissariat . After the annexation of Austria he was assigned to Vienna in August 1939 , where he was assigned to a task force for the attack on Poland , with which he worked in the Lublin area.

In October 1939 he was transferred to the command of the Security Police and SD Lublin (KdS), where he was employed in Department III with defense tasks. From January 1940 to May 1940 he attended a course there that was supposed to prepare him for the "executive service". In May 1941 he was sent to Düben, where he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D. In autumn 1941, on the orders of Paul Zapp , he directed the shooting of 227 Jewish men, women and children in Nikolajew and ordered the execution squad to shoot another at least 3,500 Jews at the same location. At times he acted as Zapp's deputy. After his return in October 1941, he continued his studies in Berlin for half a year. In May 1942 he finished the course due to illness and was assigned to the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in Department VI for Czech Affairs (CZ). Then he was assigned to the Zeppelin company .

In 1943 he was assigned to the KdS Reval in Department IV of the Defense Department. In October 1944 he was assigned to the KdS Breslau , where he became the head II F (later IV 3a3), also as head of the department "industrial espionage". In January 1945 he was still used in the fortress regiment D in the defensive battles.

At the end of the war, Noa was arrested by American troops and handed over to the British. The denazification of the detention Ludwigsburg classified him on 29 July 1948 in the Group I of the main culprits. He was released on July 31, 1948 because his previous imprisonment was offset against the three-year sentence in a labor camp. Noa then worked in agriculture and as a laborer before he came to Gießener Anzeiger as a freelancer in mid-1953 and was employed there as an editor in 1959. The public prosecutor's office in Munich had Noa heard as a witness in February 1962. He was arrested on May 24, 1962, but released after just two months in pre- trial detention. Noa worked as an editor for Gießener Anzeiger until the end of 1969, before he was transferred to the publisher's archive when the main hearing began in January 1970. The Munich District Court sentenced him on 26 February in 1970 for aid to the murder of at least 897 cases to seven years in prison . On September 15, 1972 he was transferred from the Kassel correctional facility to the Kassel City Hospital, where he died on September 24.

literature

• Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . WBG, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 261–263.
2. ^ Proceedings in justice and Nazi crimes