Karl Streibel

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Karl Streibel in the Trawniki Forced Labor Camp (before 1945)

Karl Richard Josef Streibel (born October 11, 1903 in Neustadt in Upper Silesia ; † 1986 ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and camp commandant of the Trawniki forced labor camp .

Life

Karl Streibel emigrated to Brazil after elementary school in 1922, worked there as a grocery seller, married the daughter of the shop owner, and had a daughter there. In 1928 he returned to Germany with his family and took over a small restaurant in his hometown Neustadt in Upper Silesia, but had to close the inn in the wake of the global economic crisis in 1932. In the SS personnel report, however, Als Innkeeper in Neustadt was completely ruined by boycott .

Karl Streibel joined the SA in 1930 and the NSDAP in 1931 (membership number 554.023). On February 10, 1933, he became a member of the SS (SS no. 60.152). He was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer in November 1936 and to SS-Obersturmführer in November 1937.

After the beginning of the Second World War, Streibel served on Odilo Globocnik's staff and was involved in the recruitment of ethnic Germans for the SS and SD. From January 1940 he was deployed in German-occupied Poland . In August 1940 he was ordered to work on the border construction in Belzec. Streibel was on 17 October 1941, SS Group Leader Odilo Globocnik during Operation Reinhardt , succeeding Hermann Höfle used as camp commander in Trawniki concentration camp, where he as commander of the Trawniki for the use of aid volunteers in the extermination camps Belzec , Treblinka and Sobibor responsible was. In January 1942 Odilo Globocnik suggested him for the War Merit Cross Second Class with Swords , because Streibel had trained more than 1200 guards in a very short time - since October 1941 -. On February 2, 1942, Streibel signed John Demjanjuk's ID card . Streibel rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1942. In September 1943 Globocnik reported that 3,700 Trawniki men were now serving; Streibel added another 300 within six months.

Streibel showed himself to be caring for his Trawniki troops: in the event of deaths, he had funerals held with military honors, wrote letters of condolence to the families and provided support.

From the end of July 1944, Streibel and his troops were involved in defensive battles against the Red Army and withdrew to the Vistula. After the heavy air raids on Dresden in February 1945, he commanded a command of Trawniki men that was responsible for the cremation of the corpses. In April 1945 the rest of the troops - around 700 strong - fled to Bohemia, disbanded and everyone tried to go into hiding undetected.

After the end of the Second World War, he made his living as a businessman in Hamburg . Karl Streibel and five other suspects were tried from December 5, 1972 to June 3, 1976 at the Hamburg Regional Court for their work in the Trawniki forced labor camp. All of the defendants were acquitted in the absence of sufficient evidence.

literature

  • Tuviah Friedman (ed.): SS-Sturmbannführer Streibel, commandant of the SS training school in Trawniki in court in Hamburg , Institute of Documentation in Israel for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, Haifa 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 608
  2. ↑ Dieter Pohl: From the "Jewish policy" to the murder of Jews. The District of the General Government 1939-1944. Lang, Frankfurt 1993, p. 186
  3. ^ Matthias Janson: Strafsache Trawniki matthiasjanson.de, specifically (journal) 11/2009
  4. ↑ a b Data of membership NSDAP / SS
  5. ↑ a b Dieter Pohl: From the "Jewish policy" to the murder of Jews. The District of the General Government 1939-1944. Lang, Frankfurt 1993, p. 186
  6. ^ Peter Black: Foot Soldiers of the Final Solution - The Trawniki Training Camp and Operation Reinhard. In: Genocide and Holocaust Studies , Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2011, p. 19.
  7. ^ Streibel's signature on Ivan Demjanuk's ID Card
  8. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 608
  9. ↑ File number: Hamburg Public Prosecutor's Office 147 Js 43/69.
personal data
SURNAME Streibel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streibel, Karl Richard Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camp commandant and SS-Sturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1986