Hubert Gomerski

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Hubert Gomerski, Johann Niemann , travel guide and driver on vacation (1943)

Hubert Gomerski (born November 11, 1911 in Schweinheim (Aschaffenburg) ; † December 28, 1999 in Frankfurt am Main ) was involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt " as a German SS sergeant. Gomerski was sentenced to life imprisonment in August 1950 for the crimes committed in the Sobibor extermination camp .

Life

Gomerski, the son of a toolmaker, grew up with eight siblings. After finishing school, he learned the trade of iron turner from 1927. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1929 or 1931 and the SS in 1931 . After the outbreak of World War II , he received military training in the SS-Totenkopfstandarten in November 1939 and was transferred to the Berlin police in January 1940. In the spring of 1940 Gomerski was obliged to serve in the Nazi killing center in Hartheim as part of "Aktion T4" , where he did office work and later worked as a corpse burner. In the meantime, he was transferred to the T4 central office because he felt sick during the cremation. Then he was transferred to the Nazi killing center in Hadamar and was again busy with the cremation of the gassed victims. After the killings in Hadamar had ceased, Gomerski was transferred to the Sobibor extermination camp in April 1942 as part of " Aktion Reinhardt ". There he, like Werner Dubois, supervised the forest command. He was considered cruel among the prisoners: "Gomerski killed the prisoners with a stick in which nails were embedded." During the uprising in Sobibor , Gomerski was on vacation.

After the "Aktion Reinhardt" ended, Gomerski was transferred to the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone in Trieste in late autumn 1943, as was the majority of the "Aktion Reinhardt" staff . Here he was a member of the " Special Department, Operation R ", which served the "extermination of Jews", the confiscation of Jewish property and the fight against partisans . In the course of the approaching end of the war, the units of the "Sonderabteilung Einsatz R" withdrew from northern Italy at the end of April 1945 and Gomerski returned to Germany.

After the end of the Second World War , Gomerski was acquitted of aiding and abetting murder on March 21, 1947 because of the "euthanasia murders " in Hadamar in the so-called Hadamar trial . Gomerski was released from pre-trial detention on July 2, 1947. He then worked as a driver. Gomerski was married and had two children. On the basis of a statement by Josef Hirtreiter , who was arrested as early as 1946 as a result of the investigation into the killing of disabled people in the Hadamar “euthanasia” facility and sentenced to life imprisonment in the first Treblinka trial in 1951 , the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office investigated Gomerski and Johann Klier , who was also was deployed in Sobibor. The trial before the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court included participation in mass killings in Sobibor. In detail, this concerned the selection of the inmates of arriving train transports as well as the mistreatment and shooting of Jews. The proceedings ended on August 25, 1950 with the pronouncement of the verdict. While Klier was acquitted, Gomerski received life imprisonment for murder on an indefinite number of cases . The judgment was overturned in 1972 by the BGH . After his release in 1977, the Frankfurt am Main jury reduced the charge against Gomerski to “aiding and abetting murder”. The BGH also overturned this judgment. A third hearing was temporarily suspended in 1981 due to Gomerski's inability to stand trial and finally suspended in 1984. Gomerski died on December 28, 1999 in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • Georg Lilienthal: staff of a killing center. Eight biographical sketches. In: Hadamar. Sanatorium - killing center - therapy center. Edited by Uta George, Georg Lilienthal, Volker Roelcke, Peter Sandner, Christina Vanja. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2006 (Historical series of publications by the State Welfare Association of Hesse: Sources and Studies, Volume 12), ISBN 3-89445-378-8 , pp. 283–285.
  • Barbara Distel : Sobibor. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 376 ff.
  • Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz eV: Schöne Zeiten - Material collection on the extermination camps of Aktion Reinhardt Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka , Reader
  • LG Frankfurt am Main, August 25, 1950 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicides 1945–1966, Vol. VII, edited by Adelheid L Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs and CF Rüter . University Press, Amsterdam 1971, No. 233, pp. 275-88 [1]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sobibor trial (Frankfurt) - judgment: LG Frankfurt am Main from August 25, 1950, 52 Ks 3/50 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.holocaust-history.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.holocaust-history.org
  2. ↑ a b "Brenner" Hubert Gomerski
  3. ↑ Thistle: Sobibór. P. 389 (see literature)
  4. ^ Jewish work details in the extermination camps at www.deathcamps.org
  5. ↑ Sobibor on www.deathcamps.org
  6. ^ Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes , Tübingen 2002, p. 38
  7. ↑ Justice and Nazi crimes ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.jur.uva.nl
  8. ↑ Heike Kleffner , Miriam Rürup : The forgotten Sobibor extermination camp: Overview of the legal prosecution of Nazi perpetrators and the public perception. on www.klick-nach-rechts.de
personal data
SURNAME Gomerski, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharfuhrer, involved in "Aktion T4" and "Aktion Reinhardt"
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinheim (Aschaffenburg)
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1999
Place of death Frankfurt am Main