Herbert Strickner

Herbert Strickner (born June 2, 1911 in Innsbruck , † January 1951 in Poland ) was a German police officer and SS leader .

Life

Strickner, the son of a railroad worker, first studied Protestant theology at the University of Graz after graduating from high school in 1929 . He broke off his studies in 1933 without a degree when he had to leave Austria because of National Socialist activities. Instead, he studied newspaper studies , German folk history and sports at the University of Leipzig . In 1937 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the sports coverage of the Völkischer Beobachter . He became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 897.102).

After completing his studies, Strickner first worked as a sports teacher before he became a full-time SD functionary in the SD upper section northeast in Königsberg and Tilsit in June 1938 . Following the annexation of the Sudeten areas to the German Reich , Stricker took part in an SD mission in this area and in autumn 1939 he was a member of Einsatzgruppe IV deployed in Poland , which cleared the Posen area of "undesirable elements" and carried out numerous mass shootings performed. Then he was assigned to the SD head section in Poznan as a nationality officer. At that time he was significantly involved in the elaboration of the so-called people list , which divided the population of the Wartheland according to racial criteria.

In October 1942, Strickner took over as the successor to Hans Ehlich as head of Department III B (Volkstum) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). In June 1943 he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer .

After the Second World War , Strickner was interned by the Allies and later extradited to Poland. He was sentenced to death there in March 1949 and executed in January 1951.

The publisher's edition of Strickner's dissertation was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .

Fonts

• The historical development of sports reporting and the sports section in "Völkischer Beobachter" (1920–1936) , Sporn, Zeulenroda 1938. (Dissertation)

literature

• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional . Hamburg 2002, pp. 943f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948). Letter S. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .