Klaus Dylewski
Klaus Dylewski (born May 11, 1916 in Finkenwalde ; † April 1, 2012 in Hilden ) was a German SS Oberscharführer and member of the camp Gestapo in Auschwitz .
Life
Dylewski was born in 1916 as the son of a mine worker and grew up in Upper Silesia, near Auschwitz ( Oświęcim ). Dylewski attended elementary school in Pless ( Pszczyna ) and Nikolai ( Mikołów ) and then grammar school and graduated from high school in 1935 . In the spring of 1936 he began studying aircraft technology at the Danzig Technical University . After six semesters he changed the subject and studied mechanical engineering. He did not graduate from this study either, but instead joined the SS Heimwehr Danzig in 1939 . In 1940 he was assigned to an SS-Totenkopf-Regiment with which he took part in the attack on France.
Auschwitz
Dylewski came to the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp at the beginning of September 1940 via several intermediate stops, where he first became a member of a guard company and was later transferred to the political department (camp Gestapo) as an interpreter and investigator because of his knowledge of Polish . In this capacity he participated in interrogations, torture and shootings. He was allowed to interrupt his service in the camp twice for several months in order to continue his abandoned mechanical engineering studies. During his service in Auschwitz he married Ruth Fey, who was later interrogated as a witness in the Auschwitz trials. In the spring of 1944 he was promoted to SS-Oberscharführer and in August 1944 he was transferred to the SS headquarters in Hersbruck near Nuremberg, where he worked as a department head building an underground engine factory for fighter planes. Prisoners from the Flossenbürg subcamp in Hersbruck were used to set up this plant .
End of war
At the end of the war, Dylewski exchanged his SS uniform for civilian clothes, with which he managed to get to Munich . He took on various unskilled jobs in Bavaria and also worked in a nursery in Hamburg , with which he made his living without being recognized. In 1948 he continued his studies with false papers, this time at the East Berlin Humboldt University . After completing his studies, he worked as a trade teacher in the GDR and later also in Düsseldorf . From 1952 he worked, this time under his real identity, until his arrest in April 1959 as an expert for material acceptance at the TÜV in Düsseldorf. In the following years he was in custody, sometimes only for a few months, until he was released. After spending one month in the Frankfurt remand prison in 1959, he was imprisoned for three and a half months from 1960 to 1961. During the jury trial he was arrested for the third time in early October 1964. On August 19, 1965, he was sentenced to five years in prison in the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt , but was released in 1968 before the jury's verdict became final.
literature
- Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, Ullstein-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-54833014-2 .
Web links
- Short portrait of Klaus Dylewskis at www.auschwitz-prozess-frankfurt.de
- Short biography on www.auschwitz-prozess-frankfurt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of death according to: Raphael Gross, Werner Renz (ed.): Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963–1965). Annotated source edition , Volume 1, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2013, p. 1366
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dylewski, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS Oberscharführer; Auschwitz concentration camp personnel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finkenwalde near Stettin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 2012 |
| Place of death | Hilden |