Karl Tschierschky

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Karl Gustav Hugo Tschierschky (born March 15, 1906 in Friedenshütte , Upper Silesia , † September 18, 1974 in Roses , Spain ) was a German SS leader with the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (1942).

Life

After attending school, Tschierschky learned the trade. In the 1920s he worked, among other things, as the head of the employment office in Mannheim .

In 1926 Tschierschky joined the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1931 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 918.746) and in December 1931 he joined the Schutzstaffel (membership number 44.334). In 1935 Tschierschky took over duties in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS .

As SD boss Reinhard Heydrich became aware of Tschierschky in January 1938, he arranged for their transfer to the SD, the news secret of the SS. That same year he was promoted to Sturmbannführer. A superior described him at this time as “sober and hardworking” if a little “nagging, [and] therefore not always easy to take.” Tschierschky was always deployed there when the SD expanded into new areas of responsibility and a particularly assertive and unscrupulous one Leader was needed.

After the attack on Poland and the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Tschierschky became deputy head of the central immigration office in occupied Poland in 1940 . There he was involved in the resettlement of the Bessarabian Germans in August 1940 .

On December 17 and 18, 1940, Tschierschky took part in a meeting of the Saxony Chamber of Commerce , at which it was decided to exploit occupied Poland as a reservoir for slave labor .

In 1941 and 1942 Tschierschky was sent to the Baltic States as deputy commander of Einsatzgruppe A , whose firing squads killed 300,000 people. Since he had already taken over the office of SD leader in Dresden in January 1941 , Tschierschky was forced to switch back and forth between his two functions - the administrative function in Saxony and the supervision of the murderous events in the east. In Dresden Tschierschky worked with Georg Bellmann , among others .

On April 13, 1944 Tschierschky was withdrawn from Saxony and entrusted with the management of the Office Group VI C (Soviet Union) of the SD foreign secret service in the Reich Security Main Office . At Heinrich Himmler's request , on November 28 of the same year he took over the management of the Werwolf company , a National Socialist underground fighting movement. On March 10, 1945 Tschierschky was promoted for the last time, so that at the end of the war he held the rank of SS-Standartenführer.

After the war , Tschierschky lived for many years as a commission representative in Frankfurt am Main. From 1946 he is said to have worked for the British secret service. After he was briefly taken into custody in the early 1960s, Tschierschky was not indicted by the Hamburg public prosecutor until 1973 (Sta Hamburg 141 Js 534/60). The Soviet Union, among others, provided evidence to the public prosecutor's office about the trial, which lasted until 1974 and in which no verdict was reached.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Helmut Krausnick, Hans Heinrich Wilhelm: The troops of the Weltanschauung war. The task force of the Security Police and the SD 1938–1942 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 978-3-421-01987-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Carsten Schreiber: Elite in secret . De Gruyter, Munich 2008, ISBN 3486585436 , p. 201; Date of death according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 632.
  2. ↑ a b Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , 2008, p. 59.
  3. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , 2008, p. 58f.
  4. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann : The war in the dark. The »Zeppelin« company 1942–1945 . In Michael Wildt (Ed.): Intelligence Service, Political Elite and Murder Unit. The security service of the Reichsführer SS . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-84-0 , pp. 324–346, here p. 345.
  5. ^ Carsten Schreiber: The leaders of the security service (SD) in Dresden . In: Christine Pieper, Mike Schmeitzner , Gerhard Naser (Eds.): Braune Karrieren. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 , pp. 78–83, here p. 83.
  6. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , 2008, p. 61. Also: Simon Wiesenthal Center : Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual , 1989, p. 317.
personal data
SURNAME Tschierschky, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschierschky, Karl Gustav Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader with the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (1942)
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedenshütte , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1974
Place of death Roses , Spain