Johann Kick

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Johann Kick in American internment. Photo from 1945.

Johann Georg Kick (born November 24, 1901 in Waldau ; † May 29, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German police officer, SS-Obersturmführer and, as detective commissioner, head of the political department in the Dachau concentration camp .

biography

Kick, a member of the SS , was married and had one child. Kick entered the police service in 1921, where he worked for the state police until 1925. From 1925 to 1933, Kick served in the traffic police in Munich. After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, it was used by the Gestapo in Munich, which arose from the structural changes made to the police force in April of that year. From 1937 Kick became head of the Political Department in the Dachau concentration camp in his capacity as an officer of the Gestapo. In the exercise of his office, Kick was responsible to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). As head of the prisoners' archive, Kick was responsible for the administrative processing of the registration of newcomers, dismissals, relocations and the questioning of camp inmates. Johann Kick remained in this position until September 1944, when Otto Kloppmann was his successor . Afterwards, Kick is said to have been responsible for recruiting double agents in a Gestapo branch in Dachau. From the end of January to the end of April 1945, Kick was again a member of the Political Department of the Dachau concentration camp, but no longer in a leading position. After the liberation of the camp by US troops on April 29, 1945, he was arrested on May 5, 1945.

After the end of the war

On November 15, 1945 Kick Johann was in Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place, on charges of war crimes American US before a military court found. Johann Kick was the only member of the political department of the Dachau concentration camp to be represented among the forty suspects of the Dachau camp personnel. The complaint alleged that he was involved in putting together the so-called transports for the disabled and the execution of sentences for camp inmates, and that he was responsible for the violent interrogation of political prisoners in Dachau.

In his defense, Kick stated that he could not exert any influence on certain processes within the camp - such as the transport of invalids - because they were outside his area of ​​responsibility. Kick also denied that he had used violence when interrogating camp inmates. Kick also stated that he had been repeatedly mistreated in his pre-trial interrogations until he forcibly passed on affidavits which, in his opinion, did not correspond to the facts. The interrogators stated, however, that Kick had not been forced to explain his statements either through the use of violence or threats of such violence.

In the judgment, the passing on of execution orders and the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation were taken into account as individual excesses at Kick . On December 13, 1945 Kick with thirty-five other co-accused by the US military tribunal was death by the strand convicted. The sentence was carried out on May 29, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al.) Tried 13 Dec. 45 (PDF; 40.9 MB), p. 95
  2. ↑ Michael S. Bryant: American concentration camp trials using the example of the 119 military court cases for crimes in the Dachau concentration camp 1945-1947, in: Justice and Remembrance , Issue 12, December 2006 ( PDF file)
  3. ↑ Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al.) Tried 13 Dec. 45 (PDF; 40.9 MB), pp. 97,133
  4. ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5 , p. 320.
  5. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 306

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 306.
  • Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al.) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Kick, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kick, Johann Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman, head of the political department in Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldau
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1946
Place of death Landsberg am Lech