Heinz Röthke

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Heinz Röthke (born January 19, 1912 in Mürow ; † July 14, 1966 in Wolfsburg ), as SS-Obersturmführer, together with Theodor Dannecker, was one of the main people responsible for the deportation of Jews from France , which took place between 1940 and 1944.

Röthke was initially than after graduating from law school Regierungsrat active in the Munich regional council. During the German occupation he was initially active as a war administrator in Brest , before becoming deputy director under Theodor Dannecker in spring 1942 and finally head of the Gestapo's Jewish department in France in July 1942 . His active role in the deportations to the Auschwitz extermination camp can also be seen from his telex to the Reich Security Main Office of November 5, 1942 :

“On November 5, 1942, 1,100 Jews of Greek nationality were arrested in Paris. As a result, it becomes necessary that a fourth transport leaves for Auschwitz on Wednesday, November 11th, 1942 ”.

Röthke lived in Wolfsburg after the end of the war and worked there as a legal advisor. From October 1961 he received a monthly pension from the Free State of Bavaria . Röthke died in Wolfsburg in July 1966. According to Serge Klarsfeld , he was sentenced to death in absentia in France after 1945.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex: The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 9783892446934
  • Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7
  • Serge Klarsfeld: Vichy - Auschwitz , from the Franz. Von Ahlrich Meyer , Nördlingen 1989; New edition 2007 by WBG , Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-534-20793-0
  • Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrator under interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 , WBG , Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-17564-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quote from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 504.
  2. ↑ Short biography of Heinz Röthke with Serge Klarsfeld: Vichy - Auschwitz , p. 597f
personal data
SURNAME Röthke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mürow
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1966
Place of death Wolfsburg