Karl Dalheimer

Karl Robert Dalheimer (born November 5, 1907 in Geestemünde ; † July 20, 1986 in Bremen ) was German SS-Obersturmführer , head of department I / II (human resources and economic affairs) at the commander of the security police and SD (KdS) in Minsk and convicted war criminal .

Life

Dalheimer was the son of the lathe operator Rudolf Dalheimer. From 1913 to 1921 he attended elementary school in Oldenburg . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in a bank in Schwel and worked for various companies in his learned profession until 1926. On May 1, 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In 1936 he was transferred to the Political Police in Delmenhorst , from which he resigned as a pensioner at the beginning of 1938. Since 1939 he was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). In 1941 he was appointed police inspector. Later he served at the Stapo control center in Vienna , where he worked on administrative matters.

From autumn 1941 to May 1945 he worked for the Kattowitz police station . From November 1942 to spring 1944 he was seconded to the KdS office in Minsk, where he was in charge of cash and accounting in Department I / II (Human Resources and Economic Affairs). When the Minsk Ghetto was dissolved in autumn 1943, Dalheimer was involved in this action as a shooter in one of the subsequent mass shootings. Dalheimer was also used as a shooter in the shooting of 300 Minsk men, women and children in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Commissioner General Wilhelm Kube in autumn 1943. Dalheimer was accused of being involved in the murder of 1,103 people. At the beginning of 1944 he returned to his old office in Katowice. When the Red Army approached , he left for Chemnitz in January 1945 .

After the end of the war he lived in Oldenburg and worked there as a brickwork and construction worker until the end of 1954, before he found a job as an accountant for the regional association of returnees in Bremen in January 1955. On May 11, 1960, he was provisionally arrested. The Koblenz district court sentenced him to four years in prison on May 21, 1963 for aiding and abetting murder. After his release from prison, he worked for a Bremen wholesale company.

literature

Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 247–248
↑ Walter Kornfeld. Crimes of the Einsatzgruppen - prosecution before Austrian jury courts using the example of the trial of Josef Wendl . 2012 (diploma thesis, University of Vienna), p. 77 ( online )
↑ Entry in Justice and Nazi Crimes
↑ Jürgen Gückel: Class photo with mass murderer: The double life of Artur Wilke , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-31114-1 , p. 291.

personal data
SURNAME	Dalheimer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dalheimer, Karl Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Obersturmführer, convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH	July 20, 1986
Place of death	Bremen

[Ullrich-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 247–248

[2] Walter Kornfeld. Crimes of the Einsatzgruppen - prosecution before Austrian jury courts using the example of the trial of Josef Wendl . 2012 (diploma thesis, University of Vienna), p. 77 ( online )

[3] Entry in Justice and Nazi Crimes

[4] Jürgen Gückel: Class photo with mass murderer: The double life of Artur Wilke , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-31114-1 , p. 291.