Josef Kreuzer

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Josef Alois Kreuzer (born April 8, 1907 in Hevinghausen , Rhineland ; † October 15, 1958 in Gelsenkirchen-Horst ) was a German lawyer, SS-Standartenführer and senior Gestapo employee.

Life

The son of a community official, studied law and received his doctorate in 1933 . In 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 646.335) and in 1933 the SS (membership number 163.103). From the end of 1934 he was a member of the Düsseldorf Gestapo and then in a leading position at the Gestapo in Cologne , Koblenz , Trier and Aachen . From June 1940 to September 1942 he was head of the Gestapo in Münster and, in the early 1940s, also head of Einsatzkommando  III in the Netherlands . From September 1942 to June 1944 he was Heinrich Seetzen's successor as head of the Hamburg Gestapo and in this function was significantly involved in the deportation of Hamburg's Jews . From June 1944 he led the Einsatzgruppe G , which was subordinate to the Higher SS and Police Leader Black Sea Richard Hildebrandt and operated first in Romania and later in Hungary . From the end of October 1944 to April 1945, Kreuzer worked as an inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Braunschweig . In 1944, Kreuzer rose to the position of Standartenführer within the SS and was promoted to the Upper Government Council .

After the end of the war, Kreuzer was arrested in Braunschweig on June 25, 1945 and sentenced to life imprisonment by a British military tribunal, but released from Werl prison in 1954 . A preliminary investigation against Kreuzer in Bielefeld ended when the case was closed due to his death in October 1958.

literature

  • Linde Apel, Hamburg Authority for Culture, Sport, Media, in collaboration with the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Sent to death - The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg, 1940 to 1945 . Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (updated 2nd edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Linde Apel, Hamburg Authority for Culture, Sport, Media, in collaboration with the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Sent to death - The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg , 1940 to 1945 . Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009; DVD for the exhibition, The Gestapo .
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 340.
  3. ^ Herbert Diercks : Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents . Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuzer, Josef Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS-Standartenführer and Gestapo member
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hevinghausen
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1958
Place of death Gelsenkirchen-Horst