Hermann Müller (SS member)

Hermann Peter Müller (born January 30, 1909 in Essen , † March 17, 1988 in Arnsberg ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer , head of the security police and SD branch in Tarnopol and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Hermann Müller was a salesman by profession. He joined the SA in 1926 and the NSDAP in 1927 . As early as 1928 he was convicted of assault . Another conviction followed in 1931 for serious breach of the peace . In the same year he joined the SS (SS No. 6922). After the beginning of the National Socialist rule he became an employee of the German Labor Front and was later head of the SD office in Bochum .

Since 1941 he was head of the border police commissioner (GPK) Tarnopol . It was actually a permanently stationed sub-unit of a task force . Müller acted as an extreme anti-Semite . In Tarnopol he played a key role in several actions aimed at deporting Jews to the extermination camps . Müller was also involved in numerous mass murders.

Although there was a ban on photography for actions involving the murder of the Jews, he did not obey it. It was reported about the evacuation of a ghetto: Müller “were brought before crippled and unfit for transport and he treated them as follows: The victim (sick or crippled) was placed on a chair and Hermann Müller shot him in the neck. Then he photographed it and pushed it off the chair to the floor. He had put his camera on. "

During the time in Tarnopol he had to survive internal disciplinary proceedings by the SS on several occasions. It was about attacks against Germans. In 1942 he received an official reprimand for this. On June 1, 1943, he was transferred back to the SD in Bochum. Because of his participation in the "Jewish resettlement", Müller was proposed for an order.

After the war he lived under a false name, most recently he was co-owner of a vegetable and fish shop in Espelkamp . Müller was arrested in 1961 for his involvement in the mass murder of Ukrainian Jews. In the course of a trial in March 1965, he testified against his former deputy Friedrich Lex and tried to exonerate him. On July 15, 1966, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Stuttgart Regional Court . He was serving his sentence in the Singen Correctional Facility and died while on leave.

literature

• Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0 .
• Thomas Sandkühler : Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Arnsberg registry office No. 208/1988.
2. ^ Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Bonn, 1996, p. 442.
3. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945. Munich, 1997 p. 88.
4. ^ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in East Galicia 1941–1945. Munich, 1997 p. 271.
5. ^ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in East Galicia 1941–1945. Munich, 1997 p. 226.
6. ^ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in East Galicia 1941–1945. Munich, 1997 p. 255.
7. ^ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in East Galicia 1941–1945. Munich, 1997 p. 310.
8. ^ Eva Holpfer, Sabine Loitfellner: Holocaust trials for mass shootings and crimes in camps in the east before Austrian juries. Approaches to an unexplored topic. In: Holocaust and war crimes in court: The case of Austria. Innsbruck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4258-6 p. 201.
9. ↑ Entry in Justice and Nazi Crimes