Karl Georg Brandt

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Karl Georg Brandt (born November 5, 1898 in Karlsmarkt near Brieg ; † February 16, 1945 in Posen ) was a German police officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer who was in command of the Jews' department in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War of the Security Police and SD in the Warsaw District of the so-called General Government.

Life

Brandt worked as a criminal secretary in Bielefeld during the National Socialist era and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937. After the beginning of the Second World War he was commanded to commander the Security Police and the SD in Warsaw, where he was first assigned to Division III and from 1941 to Division IV ( Gestapo ). At the Gestapo in Warsaw, he headed the Department for Jews (Department IVB4). In the summer of 1942 he worked for the special resettlement unit of the security police. On August 19, 1942, under Brandt's direction , Gestapo men shot 108 female and male inmates in the Zofiówka sanatorium in Otwock .

Brandt was significantly involved in the deportation of Warsaw Jews. According to surviving witnesses, Brandt was extremely feared in the Warsaw ghetto and was considered an extreme sadist. He is said to have taken part in selections there, in which he classified Jewish people who were considered unfit for work for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp and so-called able-bodied people for forced labor . During raids in the Warsaw Ghetto and accompanying groups of Jewish people to the notorious Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto , he is said to have been involved in murders.

Brandt was killed on February 16, 1945 during the Battle of Poznan .

literature

  • Josef Wulf : The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto . Arani-Verlags GmbH, Berlin 1961, pp. 299-302 (Chapter II: Biographies of the liquidators and accomplices, section 7).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 299
  2. ↑ Barbara Schieb, Martina Voigt (ed.): Frederick Weinstein. Notes from the hiding place: Experiences of a Polish Jew 1939–1946 . From the polish. trans. by Jolanta Woźniak-Kreutzer. Lukas-Verl., Berlin 2006, p. 504., footnote 79
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (collection of sources) Volume 9: Poland: Generalgouvernement August 1941–1945. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-71530-9 , p. 343, footnote 2
  4. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (collection of sources) Volume 9: Poland: Generalgouvernement August 1941–1945. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-71530-9 , p. 388 note 4.
  5. ↑ Josef Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 299
  6. ↑ Josef Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 299ff.
  7. ↑ Josef Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 302
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Karl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsmarkt near Brzeg
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1945
Place of death Poses