Josef Vogt (SS member, 1897)
Josef Vogt (born July 30, 1897 in Mettmann ; † August 18, 1947 in Ljubljana ) was a German police officer and SS-Sturmbannführer (1939).
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After attending school, Vogt studied economics . He then worked as a bank clerk. From October 1, 1925, Vogt worked as a police officer in Düsseldorf . From February 1, 1929 to 1933, he worked as a detective commissioner for the murder commission in the Ruhr area. In May 1933 Vogt became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 2.210.909) and on July 15, 1933 he was admitted to the Secret State Police . Vogt returned to the Gestapo in Düsseldorf in 1934 . At the end of 1936 he moved to the Gestapo Köslin . On January 1, 1938, he came to the Secret State Police in Berlin , where he was the clerk for the "factual evaluation of all manifestations of communism". On August 1, 1939, Vogt joined the SS (membership number 337.817) and the SD .
From 1940 to July 1, 1942, Vogt was Head of Section IV A l (Marxism, Communism, United Front, Illegal Propaganda) of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). His deputy in this office was Kurt Lindow . In July 1942 Vogt was used as commander of the security police in Maribor and Bled in Yugoslavia . In this function he was largely responsible for the so-called anti-partisan campaign, in which many Slovenes were murdered by Wehrmacht soldiers , SS men and members of police battalions. He also took part in the kidnapping of Slovenian children.
After the war ended , Vogt was taken prisoner of war on June 7, 1945 . Because of his activities in Yugoslavia, he was extradited by the Allies to the Yugoslav government in mid-March 1947 . Vogt and other accused were indicted before a Yugoslav military court in Ljubljana, among them the general of the mountain troops in World War II Ludwig Kübler and the former Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer . Vogt became the main witness for the prosecution and pleaded guilty on all counts. During the trial Vogt admitted his responsibility for arrests, executions, hostage-taking, resettlements and deportations of Slovenes. Vogt was sentenced to death on July 19, 1947 and, after rejecting a petition for clemency, was executed by hanging on August 18, 1947 .
literature
- Alfred Streim : The treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the "Barbarossa case". A documentation . CF Müller Legal Publishing House. Heidelberg / Karlsruhe 1981. ISBN 3-8114-2281-2 , p. 96.
- 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 Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogt, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer and SS-Sturmbannführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mettmann |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1947 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |