Josef Gmeiner

Josef Gmeiner (born December 22, 1904 in Amberg , † February 26, 1948 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader.

Life

Josef Gmeiner was the son of a criminal investigator. After graduating from high school in his hometown, Gmeiner studied law at the universities of Munich and Erlangen . He completed it with a doctorate to Dr. jur from. Gmeiner then worked as a lawyer .

Gmeiner was politically active in the Bund Oberland from 1923 and was a participant in the Hitler putsch . Gmeiner joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) in February 1934 ( membership number 186.633) and the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1935 (membership number 3.656.472). In the SS Gmeiner was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1943 .

From August 1938, Gmeiner worked as a government assessor at the Gestapo Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . From mid-December 1939 he took over the management of the Stapo control center in Dessau and was assigned to Einsatzgruppen C and D after the attack on the Soviet Union began . From the end of 1941 Gmeiner headed the Stapo control center in Karlsbad until he took over the management of the Stapo control center in Karlsruhe in February 1944 . From November 1944 he was also the commander of the security police and the security service for the Baden / Alsace area with headquarters in Karlsruhe.

After his arrest, Gmeiner was charged with three other accused in the Gestapo Karlsruhe Case (Killing of the Flying Officer Cochran RAF) before a British military court. As head of the Gestapo Karlsruhe, Gmeiner was charged with the execution of a Royal Air Force officer who had fled a prisoner-of-war camp and who was shot in the neck after his recovery. On September 3, 1947, Gmeiner was sentenced to death. The death sentence was in prison Hameln on February 26, 1948 enforced .

literature

• Michael Kißener , Joachim Scholtyseck : The leaders of the province. Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg , Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism, Vol. 2, 2nd edition. Study edition. UVK, Konstanz 1999. ISBN 3-87940-679-0 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. UVK Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3-89669-820-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. , Konstanz 2001, p. 353f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 533.
3. ^ ^{A b} Michael Hensle: "Broadcasting Crimes " before National Socialist special courts. A comparative study of judgment practice in the Reich capital Berlin and the southern Baden province (PDF; 2.3 MB). Diss. TU Berlin 2003, p. 221.
4. ↑ United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. 3 volumes, Volumes XI-XV, William S. Hein Publishing, Buffalo (New York) 1997, ISBN 1-57588-403-8 (reprint of the original edition from 1947 to 1949), p. 41f