Johann Gietler

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Johann Gietler as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Johann Gietler (born December 7, 1905 in Rosenbach near St. Jakob im Rosenthal , Carinthia ; † January 3, 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was an Austrian-German police officer.

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After attending primary school , Gietler worked as a miner. In 1927 he reported to the police music corps. A year later, in 1928, he was accepted into the police. After completing a year-long training at the Münster Police School, he joined the police in Bochum . He later worked in Iserlohn , Hamm and Wesel . In 1935 Gietler was transferred back to the Bochum police force.

Gietler later applied to the criminal police. On December 1, 1937, he was transferred to the Gestapo in Dortmund , where he initially worked in the department for combating homosexuals. Subsequently, interrupted by a short foreign command during the Sudeten deployment in 1938, he worked in the department that dealt with criminal cases against NSDAP members .

In the autumn of 1940 Gietler was appointed criminal secretary. In 1943 he was transferred to the news department (IV N).

After the war, Gietler took part in the Nuremberg trials as a witness .

In 1951, Gietler and twenty-seven other Gestapo members from the Horde office were charged with murder and crimes against humanity before the regional court in Dortmund. The subject of the proceedings were ten mass executions in which the members of the Dortmund Gestapo shot a total of 270 people without a court judgment in Dortmund's Rombergpark and buried them in bomb craters in the last weeks of the war - up to the day before the American conquest of the city . The victims were mostly foreign workers (Poles, Russians and French), German communists and resistance fighters. In a contemporary newspaper article, Gietler is named as one of the three main people responsible for the executions carried out by shot in the neck.

literature

  • Kurt Klotzbach : Against National Socialism. Publishing house for literature and current affairs, Hannover 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Garmisch-Partenkirchen No. 5/1974.
  2. ^ Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes trials Interrogations, 1946-1949. (PDF; 186 kB) File page 16, mention on the list of witnesses heard.
  3. ↑ There is no grass growing over it yet. In: The time. February 14, 1952.
personal data
SURNAME Gietler, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenbach near St. Jakob im Rosenthal , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1974
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen