Hermann Worthoff

Hermann Worthoff (* 23. March 1910 in Bergisch Gladbach , † 28. March 1982 in Eupen , Belgium ) was a German businessman , who as Judenreferent instrumental in the deportation of Jews from the ghettos Lublin and Warsaw was involved.

activity

Worthoff was a trained businessman who joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1933 . In 1937 he worked for the Gestapo, first in Cologne, then in 1938 in Klagenfurt. During the Second World War , from May 1941 to August 1944, he was a Jewish advisor to the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in Lublin. In this function he carried out the evacuation of the Lublin ghetto and deportation to the Belzec extermination camp .

In July 1942 he worked under the command of Hermann Höfle in the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto .

post war period

Worthoff lived after the war until 1953 under the name Hermann Josef Schmitz as a sales representative . His wife reported him missing and was receiving a survivor's pension . On December 16, 1975, he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Wiesbaden Regional Court, among other things for aiding and abetting the murder of 8,000 residents of the Lublin ghetto.

literature

• Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , 2nd edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 687

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Commander on site" - Wolfgang Curilla: The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939-1945 , Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , p. 767 with note 14.
2. ↑ All data see Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich , actual. Edition Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 687 / comparison with: Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection), Volume 9: Poland: General August 1941-1945 , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71530-9 , page 239 with n. 27th