Johann Viktor Kirsch

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Johann Viktor Kirsch interned in America. Photo from 1945.

Johann Viktor Kirsch (born February 15, 1891 in Marpingen , † May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and was employed as camp manager of the Dachau concentration camp subcamps.

Kirsch, married and father of five children, was a soldier in the First World War . The list of members of the NSDAP local group Marpingen lists him with the date of entry May 1, 1933 , membership number 2,709,826 and the occupational details stone crusher and armed forces member . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942 and the Waffen SS in the summer of 1944 . After a three-week training in the Auschwitz concentration camp , he was transferred on August 6, 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp and from there on 16 August 1944 as a camp leader for the construction of the Dachau subcamp Kaufering I used. At the beginning of January 1945 he became the command leader in Mittergars , a sub-camp of the Dachau external command in Mühldorf . In mid-April 1945 he returned to the Dachau concentration camp and accompanied an evacuation march in the direction of Bayrischzell , from where he and other SS men withdrew near Tegernsee in early May 1945. A short time later he was arrested near Miesbach .

On November 15, 1945 Cherry in Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place when war American US by a military court indicted and on 13 December 1945, 35 other co-defendants to death by the strand convicted. In the judgment, the severe abuse resulting in death, including beating the prisoners with an iron bar and the separation of children and parents as part of the “children's campaign” in Kaufering, were taken into account as individual acts of excess at Kirsch. The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Case No. 000-50-2 (United States vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al). Tried 13 Dec. 45. On Kirsch pp. 69 f, 122 f, 153. PDF in English
  • Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46) . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 978-3-7890-2933-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NSDAP local group Marpingen ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.widerdasvergessen.de
  2. ↑ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau process (1945/46) , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 321
personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, Johann Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Camp leader of the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Marpingen
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1946
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison