Karl Weinbacher

Karl Weinbacher (born June 23, 1898 in Stettin , † May 16, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German authorized signatory and war criminal .

Life

Weinbacher worked for the German Pest Control Society (Degesch) until 1924 and then at Tesch & Stabenow (Testa), where he was granted power of attorney in 1927 and in 1943 was deputy management under the company owner and managing director Bruno Tesch . Testa sold Zyklon B , which was used not only for pest control and disinfestation , but also to murder people in the gas chambers of Auschwitz during the Holocaust . Weinbacher received a one percent share from the sales of Zyklon B.

After the end of the Second World War , Tesch, Weinbacher and Joachim Drosihn, another employee of the company, were arrested on September 3, 1945 by members of the British military administration. As part of the Curiohaus trial , the three accused were heard in the so-called Testa trial because of the deliveries of Zyklon B from March 1, 1946. In the case of Tesch and Weinbacher, the court considered it proven that both knew the purpose of Zyklon B. Tesch and Weinbacher 8 March 1946 were most to death by the strand convicted and in prison for war criminals Hameln in May 1946 executed , Drosihn was acquitted.

literature

• Angelika Ebbinghaus : The Trial against Weinbacher and Stabenow - From Pest Control to the Holocaust. In: 1999 - Journal for Social History of the 19th and 20th Centuries 13 (1998), no. 2, pp. 16–71 (pdf) .
• Jürgen Kalthoff / Martin Werner: The dealers of the Zyklon B. - Weinbacher & Stabenow. A company history between Hamburg and Auschwitz. Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87975-713-5 ; (pdf) .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Short biography