Heinz Brückner

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Otto Heinz Brückner (born March 8, 1900 in Dresden ; † April 19, 1968 ) was a German SS leader who headed Amt VI ( Securing German Volkstums in the Reich ) in the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . In the race and settlement main office of the SS (RuSHA process) Brückner was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1948, but released in early 1951.

Life

Heinz Brückner joined the SS in 1940, where he achieved the rank of SS Sturmbannführer . After the Second World War , he claimed that his accession was necessary in connection with the resettlement of “ ethnic Germans ” from Lithuania to the German Reich in 1940, as the Soviets had insisted on negotiating only with officers in uniform at a higher level. As with other SS men in the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi), this was a protective claim; Joining the Allgemeine SS was voluntary in the VoMi and not a prerequisite for a management position. For example, two other VoMi office heads - Adolf Puls and Lothar Heller - did not join the SS until 1944.

In the RuSHA trial , one of the twelve Nuremberg follow-up trials , Brückner was charged in 1947 with (1) war crimes , (2) crimes against humanity, and (3) membership in a criminal organization . On March 10, 1948, he was found guilty on all three counts. In particular, he was charged with his responsibility for kidnapping non-German children, making it difficult for non-Germans to reproduce, the forced eviction and resettlement of foreigners , the forced "Germanization" of foreigners and the forced labor of foreigners. The sentence was 15 years imprisonment. Brückner was released on January 3, 1951 from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Valdis O. Lumans: Himmler's Auxiliaries: the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945 . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1993, ISBN 0-8078-2066-0 .
  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 , Vol. IV (“The RuSHA Case”). United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950, pp. 597-1185. ( Volume 4 (PDF; 56.9 MB) of the "Green Series")
  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 , Vol. V ("The RuSHA Case continued."). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1-192. ( Volume 5 (PDF; 31.0 MB) of the "Green Series")
  • Harry Stossun, The resettlement of Germans from Lithuania during the Second World War: Investigations into the fate of a German ethnic group in the East , Marburg / Lahn: JG Herder Institute 1993 ISBN 3-87969-231-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Dresden III, No. 656/1900
  2. ↑ a b Valdis O. Lumans: Himmler's Auxiliaries . Chapel Hill 1993, pp. 148-149.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? , 2nd Edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 77. (Entry on Brückner, Heinz )
  4. ↑ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 159-160.
  5. ^ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruckner, Heinz; Brueckner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS officer in the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, defendant in the Nuremberg follow-up trials
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1968