Herbert Bischoff (SS member)

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Herbert Bischoff (born March 6, 1910 in Glogau , Province of Silesia , † unknown, after 1970) was a German SS leader . He became known as the main defendant in a post-war trial in connection with the Röhm affair of 1934.

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Bischoff learned the trade of butcher. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 480.773) and SS (SS number 11.496).

In 1934, Bischoff was a member of the SS in Silesia. During the Röhm affair on June 30, 1934, he and other perpetrators mistreated and injured the Jewish lawyer Sally Jacobssohn with rubber truncheons, for which he was sentenced to prison in 1951.

On the following day, July 1, 1934, Bischoff received the order from the leader of the Glogau SS Standard to shoot the Jewish doctor Erich Lindemann , the owner and director of a sanatorium in Glogischdorf near Glogau, as an unpleasant person. Together with three other SS members, Bishop Lindemann went to see him, whom they found in the garden of his sanatorium. While two of the SS men stayed behind, Bischoff and another perpetrator named Schmidt took their prisoner to a nearby forest, where they opened his “ death sentence ” to him (“They are sentenced to death by the SD ”) and then from close by with a pistol fired two shots in the head. An investigation initiated by the public prosecutor's office was soon put down by order of the Reich government .

During the Second World War , Bischoff fought as a member of the Waffen-SS , most recently with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer on the Eastern Front .

After the war, Bischoff and his SS colleague Finsterwalde were charged with killing Lindemann in 1934 before the Kassel jury court. On October 24, 1952, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment and life deprivation of his civil rights . With a judgment of July 8, 1970, the Kassel Regional Court overturned this judgment and ruled that Bischoff was only guilty of “ complicity in murder ”. His sentence was reduced to five years in prison.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of SS numbers.
  2. ↑ Hamburg Institute for Social Research: The Protest Chronicle 1949–1959 , 1996, p. 679.
personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH after 1970