Heinrich Winterstein

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Heinrich Winterstein (born June 1, 1912 in Kempten ; † June 1, 1996 in Munich ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer , member of Sonderkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D and convicted war criminal .

Life

Winterstein was the son of a staff paymaster . He attended a grammar school in Munich. Then he began to study law, but with the death of his father he dropped out after two semesters. In 1932 he began an apprenticeship in a chemical plant in Starnberg . In 1933 he became a member of the SS . In 1934 he was briefly a member of the SS Reitersturm in Starnberg. In 1936 he switched to SS border surveillance. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1937 he was accepted into the civil service career as a candidate in the border police .

When the attack on Poland began , he was a member of the special-use task force under the command of SS group leader Udo von Woyrsch . These units carried out mass shootings of Jews . At the beginning of 1940 he was appointed assistant commissioner and moved to an SD unit in Berlin to continue his law studies. In May 1941 he was appointed SS- Obersturmführer . He was then transferred to the border police school in Pretzsch an der Elbe and assigned to Sonderkommando 11b. In August 1941 he personally took part in the shooting of 40 Jews in Tighina (Vâlcea) . On the orders of command leader Bruno Müller, Winterstein organized the shooting of 500 Jews in Odessa in October 1941 in response to the bomb attack on the Romanian city command building. In October 1941 he was able to continue his studies. From August 1944 until the end of the war, he was employed in the Reich Ministry of Finance for the General Inspector of Customs Border Guard.

At the end of the war he was interned in Gmunden in Austria . In 1945 he came to Munich, where he took up a job at the US headquarters. On February 22, 1949, he was classified as a follower by the court in Munich . He then worked as the managing director of Garngroßhandels-Süd in Munich. He then worked in 1952 as a legal advisor to an auditor . From 1963 he became self-employed. From 1967 he ran his own law firm. He was arrested on May 12, 1971, but released on bail. The Munich District Court sentenced him on 29 March 1974 because of aid to the murder in 40 cases to three years in prison.

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 f g h Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 280–281.
  2. ^ Proceedings in justice and Nazi crimes
personal data
SURNAME Winterstein, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1996
Place of death Munich