Josef Remmele

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Josef Remmele in American internment.

Josef Remmele (born March 3, 1903 in Auerbach ; † December 3, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS member and head of the Eintrachthütte concentration camp . As a war criminal , Remmele was sentenced to death and executed in the Dachau trials .

Life

The son of a farmer attended elementary school for seven years and advanced training school for three years. He then worked in his parents' farm, who moved to Zusmarshausen in 1907 . Remmele was married; the marriage resulted in two children. In April 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 217.435) and in August 1932 the SS (SS number 41.969).

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Remmele was a member of the security team at the Dachau concentration camp from July 29, 1933 . Initially an SS man, he was promoted to SS-Oberscharführer in November 1938 and to SS-Hauptscharführer in February 1939 . Between July 1938 and September 1942 Remmele was deployed several times for short periods in Dachau satellite camps . In Dachau he acted as block leader, labor deployment leader and - verifiably for November 1940 - as report leader . The Dachau prisoner Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz reports in his diaries of prisoner roll calls at which Remmele insulted sick prisoners as simulators and kicked them in the shins.

From September 1942 Remmele was a member of the guards at the Auschwitz concentration camp and until May 1943 was mainly deployed in the Monowitz concentration camp . From May 1943 to July 1944 Remmele headed the Eintrachthütte concentration camp , a satellite camp of Auschwitz. Remmele is said to have set dogs on prisoners with preference . As a result of a mass flight of prisoners, Remmele was replaced as head of the Eintrachtshütte camp and then headed the Jawischowitz satellite camp . After the camp was "evacuated" in January 1945, he was employed in the personnel department of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA) in Berlin. From March 1945 Remmele was a security guard in an SS camp in Mysen in Norway, where he was captured by British forces on July 6, 1945.

As a member of the Dachau security team, Remmele was brought before an American military court in a follow-up to the main Dachau trial . The charges included participation in the executions of Soviet prisoners of war between November 1941 and March 1942, the selection of prisoners for the so-called invalid transports of Operation 14f13 , during which he also designated unpleasant, healthy prisoners to be gassed , and the hand-hand murder of at least five Prisoners, the active participation in the execution of so-called camp penalties such as tree hanging as well as numerous cases in which Remmele beat, kicked and tortured prisoners. Remmele denied the charges, claiming that concentration camp inmates whom he had given the choice between reporting and immediate mistreatment opted for immediate mistreatment several times. Remmele was sentenced to death in the court case between September 9 and 15, 1947 . The sentence was carried out by hanging in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . His body was transferred to Dinkelscherben .

literature

  • Wolfgang Proske: “Terrible! 600 Jews are still alive! ”Josef Remmele. In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Täter. Helper. Free riders. Nazi victims from the Eastern Alb. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-86281-008-6 , pp. 183-188.
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proske: Terrible. 2010, pp. 184f. with reference to: Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz: The mighty and the helpless. As a prisoner in Dachau. Volume 1: How it began. Vorwerk, Stuttgart 1957, DNB 452654319 , pp. 76f, 206.
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 333
  3. ^ Proske: Terrible. 2010, p. 187f.
personal data
SURNAME Remmele, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS member, head of the Eintrachthütte concentration camp and executed war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Auerbach
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1948
Place of death Landsberg am Lech