Johannes Post (SS member)

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Johannes Robert Adolf Post (born November 11, 1908 in Danzig ; † February 27, 1948 in Hameln ) was a German Gestapo employee , SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the Nordmark labor education camp .

Life

Johannes Post, son of a businessman, completed a commercial apprenticeship after completing his school career and then worked as a salesman in Gdansk. In 1930 Post became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 465.273) and SA . Together with other National Socialists, Post was involved in street battles with communists and shot and killed the communist Karl Pachur in the early 1930s. For this act, he and 23 other suspects were charged before the Danzig jury and sentenced to 26 months in prison for bodily harm resulting in death.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Post in 1933 granted amnesty and was next employed full in the SA Gdansk. From 1935 he was an employee of the Gestapo and in 1938 was promoted to detective inspector. In 1939 he moved from the SA to the SS (membership number 313,999) with the rank of Sturmbannführer. From 1939 to 1942 he was posted to various Stapo positions and moved to the Kiel Gestapo at the beginning of March 1942 .

Post initiated on March 29, 1944, consisting of six people command that four out of the camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan escaped and again taken allied officers shot from behind. The order to do so was issued by Fritz Schmidt , head of the Kiel Gestapo .

From June 1944 to the beginning of May 1945, Post was the commandant of the Nordmark labor education camp and was therefore primarily responsible for the more than 570 victims of the camp.

After the end of the war, Post from Kiel withdrew and went into hiding. After his arrest in May 1947, Post was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison. During the aviation trials , Post and seventeen other suspects were indicted in a British military tribunal and sentenced to death on September 3, 1947 for the murder of Allied officers. The sentence was carried out on February 27, 1948 in Hameln prison .

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  1. ↑ BA Jimmy James: Pitch Black Night - Life for the Escape , Grüntal Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2006, p. 98.
  2. ↑ a b United Nations War Crimes Commission (ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , London 1949, Volume 11, pp. 42-44.
  3. ↑ Frank Omland: The "Arbeitsserziehungslager Nordmark" - A place of detention of the Schleswig-Holstein Gestapo in Kiel 1944 - 1945 , p. 2 (pdf; 897 kB) ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Post, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of the youth concentration camp for the Nordmark labor education camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1948
Place of death Hamelin