Heinz Richter (lawyer)
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Heinz Richard Hugo Richter (born February 13, 1903 in Guben ; † July 27, 1974 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer, head of division in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and SS-Obersturmbannführer .
Life
Richter had already joined the NSDAP as a student in 1926 (membership number 48.512), but after his first state examination in law he suspended his membership for the duration of his legal clerkship between 1930 and 1932. He was hired by the Stapo control center in Berlin in 1935 , was head of the Stapo control center in Allenstein from 1936 to 1938 and was seconded to inspector of the Security Police and SD (IdS) Vienna in 1939 .
After the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, he served as a state police officer in charge of civil affairs of the Army High Command 14 and was under SS brigade leader Bruno Streckenbach the SS Einsatzgruppe I to. After returning to the RSHA in 1941, Richter advanced to the position of head of Section II A 5, which was responsible, among other things, for “confiscation and confiscation of property that is hostile to the people and the state” and “revocation of German citizenship”. In January 1942 he was appointed as the successor to SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Bradfisch as chief of Einsatzkommando 8 in Einsatzgruppe B, which carried out the extermination of Jews in Belarus. In the autumn of 1942, Richter switched to the command of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) France as a court officer . In May 1944 he became head of the Stapo control center in Frankfurt / Oder , where he “was responsible for a massacre of the inmates in the prison there shortly before the end of the war”.
After 1945 Richter succeeded in being recruited as a councilor for reuse. Richter deceived the judiciary by changing the date and place of birth. In 1955 he was employed by the Kiel pension office. There was active in the working group for POW compensation. Two years later he became chairman of the Complaints Committee for POW Compensation at the State Welfare Office in Neumünster.
Because of his crimes as head of Einsatzkommando 8 in Belarus, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Kiel Regional Court in 1968 . He was released on August 1, 1972.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2003. ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , pp. 494 f.
- Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler , Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland. Presentation and documentation. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008. ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 , p. 21 u. 106.
- Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 , pp. 296, 299 u. 549.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional . Hamburg 2002, p. 296.
- ^ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler, Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Presentation and documentation. Darmstadt 2008, p. 21.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (Ed.): The new version of § 1a Federal Supply Act (BVG): Deletion of war victim pensions for Nazi perpetrators - final report . From Dr. Stefan Klemp and Martin Hölzl, Simon Wiesenthal Center for the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Bonn, September 2016 ( PDF ).
- ^ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler, Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Presentation and documentation. Darmstadt 2008, p. 106.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Heinz Richard Hugo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, head of division in the Reich Security Main Office and SS-Obersturmbannführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1974 |
| Place of death | Kiel |