Heinz Jentzsch (SS member)

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Bruno Wolfgang Heinz Jentzsch (born June 8, 1917 in Zittau ; † May 11, 1994 in Speyer ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and convicted war criminal .

Life

Heinz Jentzsch was the son of the business student council, builder and architect Alfred Jentzsch and his wife Martha. After elementary school he attended a secondary school, but was forced to drop out of school after the death of his father in 1931. Jentzsch decided to learn an agricultural profession and accepted an apprenticeship as an agricultural scholar at the Diehmen manor near Bautzen . After an accident at work, however, he had to break off his apprenticeship and finished it at the agricultural school in Zittau.

From October 1932 he was a member of the Hitler Youth . In October 1934 he became a member of the SS (SS no. 245.466). In November 1934 he was transferred to the Sachsenburg concentration camp guard . After completing basic military training, he served as a guard post. On February 1, 1937, Jentzsch was transferred to the SS Unterführer School in Oranienburg as a student .

After completing the course on February 1, 1938, he was employed as accounting officer for guarding the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In October 1938 he was transferred to the headquarters staff of the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he worked as an accounting officer. At the end of 1940 he was transferred to the Gusen II concentration camp , where he remained until February 1943. In Gusen, Jentzsch worked as an accounting officer and staff squad leader. He acted as the right hand of camp leader Karl Chmielewski . In this function he not only participated in the selection of sick and disabled prisoners, but was also considered the inventor of the so-called dead bathing actions, as recorded by Stanisław Dobosiewicz :

“In the summer of 1941, when the transports of invalids to Hartheim for gassing were interrupted, Hscha struck. Heinz Jentzsch suggested to camp leader Chmielewski to carry out dead bath actions for disabled people, TB patients and Jews in the shower facility. For this purpose, the shower system was fitted with a low wall and the water drains with shut-off valves. "

In February 1943 he was transferred to the front. On February 29, 1943, he began his service with the 10th SS Panzer Grenadier Division . From the beginning of November 1943 Jentzsch was sent to Normandy . In April 1944 he was transferred to the SS Artillery Training and Replacement Regiment in Beneschau after he had completed a course to train as an equipment manager. In February 1945 Jentzsch came to Hungary with the 6th Panzer Army , and in April he took part in the fighting around Bratislava and Vienna in the retreat .

In May 1945, the remains of the unit resulted in Steyr the US Army . He was taken prisoner of war, from which he fled. He set off on foot to Bavaria , where he worked for farmers. He took a furnished room in Reichenbach and began training as a bricklayer there . After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to West Berlin and started his own construction business. On 5 May 1961 he was in custody taken. On November 29, 1968, the Cologne Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment . In July 1969 he failed in a suicide attempt . On August 14, 1982, he was released on parole .

literature

  • Gregor Holzinger (Ed.): The second row: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp . new academic press, Vienna, 2016 ISBN 978-3700319788
  • Christian Rabl : Mauthausen in court: Post-war trials in international comparison . new academic press, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3700321149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gregor Holzinger: The second row: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 104.
  2. ^ A b Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 105.
  3. ^ Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 106.
  4. ^ A b Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 107.
  5. ↑ Christian Rabl: Mauthausen in front of the court: Post-war trials in international comparison , Vienna, 2019, p. 226.
  6. ^ Christian Rabl: Mauthausen in front of the court: Post-war trials in international comparison , Vienna, 2019, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Jentzsch, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jentzsch, Bruno Wolfgang Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1994
Place of death Speyer