Josef Weiszl

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Josef Weiszl (born March 3, 1912 , Felsőderna ( Romanian Derna , Gde. Derna , Bihor ) , Bz. Margitta ( German  Margarethen , Romanian Marghita ) , Kom. Bihar , royal Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † 1984 ) was an Austrian SS-Oberscharführer (1943) and employees of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna , the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague (later referred to as the Central Office for the Settlement of the Jewish Question) and the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Berlin , which is practically the Eichmannreferat in the Reich Security Main Office ( RSHA). Weiszl was also involved in the deportation of Jews from France to the extermination camps .

biography

Weiszl, a salesman by trade, moved with his parents from Romania to Vienna during his childhood. According to his own statements, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and the Fatherland Front at the end of the 1920s . Before the "Anschluss of Austria" to the German Reich , Weiszl was temporarily unemployed. Through his brother-in-law, Wilhelm Höttl, he became a member of the SS and NSDAP . At the end of November 1938 he finally got a job at the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and from there in the summer of 1939 he moved to the central office in Prague, which was being established. Weiszl worked in the central offices until the beginning of 1940 in the back office with ID control. After an illness, Weiszl was camp manager from mid-1940 to the end of 1941 in the Doppl retraining camp in Vienna, where he was also responsible for the accounting of the affiliated cardboard production. In the camp he was nicknamed "Bloodhound" because of his brutality, he abused inmates with a dog whip and also enriched himself with their property.

Weiszl then returned to the Central Office in Vienna, where he participated in the deportation of Vienna's Jews . He was considered one of the most feared SS men and is said to have used a cane for the so-called “Jewish evacuations”. In August 1942 he moved to the Reich Central Office in Berlin and from there in March 1943 again to the Central Office in Prague. At the beginning of July 1943 he was transferred to Paris, where he was involved in raids on the Jews under Alois Brunner . In addition, he was a member of the camp team at the Drancy collection camp until March 1944 . In November 1944 he worked again in the Central Office in Prague. From there he fled to Austria on May 5, 1945 together with other members of the Central Office.

Weiszl was arrested in Vienna in August 1945. After his pre-trial detention , he was extradited to the French authorities in 1947. The military court in Paris sentenced him on February 8, 1949 for incitement and aid for murder and false imprisonment to life imprisonment. After the sentence was reduced to 20 years in prison, he was released to Austria in December 1955, where he was released from prosecution in May 1956. Weiszl was recognized in Austria as a late returnee and received returnees welfare. Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

  • Hans Safrian: Eichmann and his assistants . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12076-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Historians' Commission of the Republic of Austria (Ed.): "Aryanization" and restitution of apartments in Vienna , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2004, ISBN 3486567764 .
  • Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrator under interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 , Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-17564-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidemarie Uhl , Monika Sommer ; Dieter J. Hecht, Michaela Raggam-Blesch: Last places before the deportation orf.at, October 26, 2016, accessed October 26, 2016. - Images "Preparations for a transport".
  2. ↑ Hans Safrian : Eichmann und seine Gehilfen , p. 55 f.
  3. ↑ a b From: Gabriele Anderl, Die "Umschulungslager" Doppl and Sandhof of the Felsöderna Central Office for Jewish Emigration ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / doewweb01.doew.at
  4. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen , p. 327 f.
personal data
SURNAME Weiszl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS-Oberscharführer and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Felsöderna
DATE OF DEATH 1984