Julius Wohlauf

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Julius Franz Wohlauf (born June 3, 1913 in Dresden , † March 17, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a police officer of the German Ordnungspolizei and was involved in mass shootings and deportations of Jews.

After graduating from high school in 1932, the son of a retailer Wohlauf completed a commercial apprenticeship and became a member of the SA and the NSDAP in April 1933 (membership number 2,445,352). He joined the SS in 1936 (membership number 286.283) in Dresden and went as an officer candidate to the protection police or the newly created order police and completed his training in Fürstenfeldbruck . In 1938 he became a lieutenant in the security police. In April 1940 he had been sent back to Hamburg with Police Battalion 105 in Norway , but from there due to a lack of discipline. As a captain or SS-Hauptsturmführer, he commanded the 1st company in the Hamburg Reserve Police Battalion 101 in occupied Poland in 1942 , which was responsible for the deportations and mass shootings of Jews. At the same time he was deputy battalion commander under Major Wilhelm Trapp , who was executed in Poland in 1948. On July 13, 1942, the 1st Company carried out mass shootings in Józefów (Powiat Biłgorajski) near Biłgoraj . On August 25, 1942, when the intermediate ghetto was cleared , shootings near Radzyń in Miedzyrzec followed , in which Wohlauf took part with his pregnant wife Vera Wohlauf, who had just married on June 29 and who had come to Poland on her honeymoon. On September 22nd, he had all Jews in Serokomla village shot. In October he fell ill with jaundice after a trip to Hamburg , which he cured at home. There, his request was granted to be the only son of his family to be transferred from the front. In 1943 he went back to Norway as company commander and later battalion commander, but was transferred to Dresden- Hellerau after a trial .

After 1945 Wohlauf worked as a representative of an electrical company, was briefly arrested in 1946 and was re-employed in the Hamburg police from 1951, before he was again chief police officer in 1955 . When he was investigated for murder in 1963, his post-war career as head of the traffic education department came to an end. In 1968, the Hamburg jury court sentenced him to eight years in prison for aiding and abetting the murder of 9,200 people.

literature

  • Christopher R. Browning : Just normal men. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the “Final Solution” in Poland . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 5th edition 2009
  • Alexander Gruber; Stefan Kühl (ed.): Sociological analyzes of the Holocaust. Beyond the debate about “completely normal men” and “completely normal Germans”. Springer 2015, ISBN 978-3-65806895-0 .
  • Martin Hölzl: Julius Wohlauf - the post-war career of a Hamburg police officer and Nazi perpetrator , in: Police, persecution and society under National Socialism. Contributions to the History of National Socialist Persecution in Northern Germany, Volume 15. Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 2013

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Katharina Tenti: Julius Wohlauf ( de ) Retrieved on July 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ This was the subject of reporting even in the Bild newspaper in the 1960s
  3. ↑ DHM exhibition text 2011
personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlauf, Julius Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer of the Ordnungspolizei and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2002
Place of death Hamburg