Josef Vogt (SS member, 1884)

Josef Vogt during the Nuremberg Trials . Photo taken in January 1947.

Josef Theodor Vogt , also Joseph Vogt (* February 18, 1884 in Urspringen , † March 7, 1967 in Erlangen ), was a German civil servant and SS standard leader in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA). As Head of Office A IV in the WVHA, he was in charge of the financial and accounting auditing of the Waffen SS . Vogt was a defendant in the Pohl trial , one of the successor trials in Nuremberg , and was acquitted in 1947.

Life

Vogt was born in Urspringen in 1884, where his father, Eugen Vogt, worked as a teacher from 1883 to 1885. He first attended elementary school and then the Progymnasium, which he completed at the age of 16 with a secondary school leaving certificate. Then he entered the military administration. He took part in the First World War. After the end of the war he was discharged from the army at the end of March 1920 with the rank of paymaster in the rank of first lieutenant .

He became active in the Bavarian Resident Armed Forces and in 1921 founded a local group of the paramilitary federation of Bavaria and Reich in Deggendorf . In addition, Vogt belonged to the Völkischer Block under Rudolf Buttmann , which was later retroactively credited to him as NSDAP membership since 1920. Vogt officially joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,958,922) only in 1937 or 1938.

After his discharge from the army, he worked as a civil servant in the war-disabled welfare system. After passing the exam for senior administration, he was transferred to the pension office in Munich , where he worked on survivors' matters. From around 1933 he was employed by the medical examination center.

In October 1936 he joined the SS disposal force , a forerunner of the Waffen SS (SS no. 277.081). Between 1936 and 1942 Vogt worked as an accountant and auditor in various offices of the SS. In the spring of 1942, when the WVHA was organized, he took the position as head of the A IV office in the WVHA, which he held until the end of the war. His supervisor was August Frank or his deputy Heinz Fanslau . As head of the A IV office, Vogt was the top auditor in the WVHA. For example, he personally traveled to Lublin to check the bookkeeping and “business conduct” of Odilo Globocnik , who was accused of corruption and personal enrichment in the course of the murder of Jews and Poles ( Aktion Reinhardt ). In February 1944 Vogt was promoted to SS-Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS, his highest rank.

After the end of the Second World War , Vogt was indicted in 1947 in the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS (Pohl trial) for war crimes , crimes against humanity and membership in criminal organizations. His defense attorney was Wilhelm Schmidt. He was acquitted on all counts on November 3, 1947.

literature

Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950. (Volume 5 of the " Green Series ")

Web links

Documentation of the legal proceedings on www.mazal.org
Interrogations of Josef Vogt during the Nuremberg Trials. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-1562 1948/56 ( online , PDF; minutes of Vogt's interrogations in the context of the Nuremberg trials).

Individual evidence

^ Registry office archive VG Marktheidenfeld, community of Urspringen, birth register.
↑ Christoph Hübner: Bund "Bavaria and Reich", 1921-1935. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . October 13, 2009, accessed February 25, 2015 .
^ Robert Probst: Völkischer Block in Bayern (VBl), 1924/25. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . November 25, 2013, accessed February 25, 2015 .
^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 763-768.
^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 763-768.
^ ^A ^b Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1001-1004.
^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 259 and 789f.
^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, p. 199.

personal data
SURNAME	Vogt, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vogt, Josef Theodor (full name); Vogt, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant and SS standard leader in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Urspringen
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1967
Place of death	gain

[1] Registry office archive VG Marktheidenfeld, community of Urspringen, birth register.

[2] Christoph Hübner: Bund "Bavaria and Reich", 1921-1935. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . October 13, 2009, accessed February 25, 2015 .

[3] Robert Probst: Völkischer Block in Bayern (VBl), 1924/25. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . November 25, 2013, accessed February 25, 2015 .

[4] Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 763-768.

[5] Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 763-768.

[urteil-6] A ^b Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1001-1004.

[7] Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 259 and 789f.

[8] Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, p. 199.