Julius Much

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Julius Viel (born February 21, 1918 in Überlingen , Lake Constance ; † February 25, 2002 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German journalist and author. During the Second World War he was SS-Untersturmführer in the Waffen-SS . After the war he worked as a journalist and was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit for his voluntary and political commitment . In 2001, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for a murder committed seven times in 1945 .

Life

Julius Viel grew up in Adelsheim and Kirchheim unter Teck . After graduating from secondary school and completing the Reich Labor Service , he joined the SS army in 1936 . With this he took part in training courses in the Dachau concentration camp as well as in the attack on Poland , the French campaign and the war against the Soviet Union . He had also joined the NSDAP (membership number 5031847). Most recently with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer, he suffered a serious wound on the Western Front in September 1944 . He then went to the Nuremberg News School and then to Linz and the Leitmeritz News School . After the war he worked as a groom; In 1948 he started working for the Stuttgarter Zeitung . In the 1960s he was a "technical writer" there. In the early 1970s, editor-in-chief Chrysostomus Zodel made him head of the local editorial office of the Schwäbische Zeitung in Schramberg , which he held for almost 15 years.

In his spare time, Julius Viel wrote a large number of hiking and cycling guides. In 1983, on his 65th birthday, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his political merits and his voluntary work.

In 2001, Julius Viel reached the international media because he was sentenced to twelve years in prison on April 3, 2001 in the so-called Ravensburg war crimes trial before the Ravensburg Regional Court . The court regarded it as proven that, as an SS man, before the end of the Second World War in the spring of 1945, Viel had shot seven Jewish prisoners in the Gestapo Prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt “out of lust for murder and low motives”.

Eleven months later, Julius Viel died of lung cancer in his adopted home of Wangen im Allgäu after he had been released from the Hohenasperg prison due to incapacity for prison .

Publications

  • together with Brigitte Viel: Lake Constance, Allgäu, Upper Swabia Deta Kompass Rad-Wanderführer . German hiking publisher Mair u. Schnabel, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-8134-0113-8 .

literature

  • Wolf-Ulrich Strittmatter: Julius Much: "Grand master of looking away and suppressing." In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators helper free rider. Nazi-polluted from Baden-Württemberg , Volume 9: Nazi-polluted from the south of today's Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2018, ISBN 978-3-945893-10-4 , pp. 390-411.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nazi Criminals - The List of Horrors: Julius Viel , sueddeutsche.de, April 4, 2009, accessed on July 20, 2017
  2. ^ VVN-BdA Baden-Württemberg
  3. ↑ How do you hide horror? , Der Spiegel , March 5, 2001, accessed September 29, 2017
  4. ^ Entry in the Theresienstadt Lexicon
  5. ↑ SS man Julius imprisoned a lot! , hagalil.com, October 1999, accessed July 20, 2017
  6. ^ The court follows the witness: Twelve years imprisonment for SS men , Die Welt , April 4, 2001, accessed on July 20, 2017
  7. ^ Former SS man Julius Viel died of cancer in Wangen, 123recht.net, February 25, 2002 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Ex-SS officer Much is dead , Spiegel Online , February 25, 2002, accessed on July 20, 2017
  9. ^ Ex-SS officer Julius Viel died , RP-Online, February 25, 2002, accessed on July 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Former SS man Julius Viel died , Der Standard, February 26, 2002, accessed on July 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Much, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Überlingen , Lake Constance
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2002
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu