Kuno Callsen

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Kuno Callsen (born October 19, 1911 in Wilster in Schleswig-Holstein , † May 17, 2001 in Neu-Isenburg ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer (1944). He was instrumental in the mass murders in Babyn Yar .

Career

Callsen, son of a teacher, was a co-founder of the National Socialist Students' Union in Itzehoe in 1929 . In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 647.505), in which he rose to political leader in 1932 . From 1934 he was part of the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD). In 1935 he joined the SS (SS No. 107.362). In the same year he was involved in setting up the press department of the SD upper section Rhine in Frankfurt am Main .

During the Second World War he was in the war against the Soviet Union from May to October 1941, head of a sub-command of Sonderkommando 4a in Einsatzgruppe C and deputy Paul Blobels , who was executed as a war criminal in 1951 .

As SS-Hauptsturmführer , Callsen was, together with Kurt Hans , August Häfner and Adolf Janssen, in charge of the mass shootings in the Babyn Yar massacre , in which over 30,000 Jews were shot on September 29 and 30, 1941. Babyn Yar thus became a symbol for the mass murders of the Einsatzgruppen, because neither before nor after had so many people been murdered by an Einsatzkommando in such a short time.

In 1943 Callsen became Otto Ohlendorf's personal assistant in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). After the end of World War II, Callsen went into hiding under an assumed name and worked as an employee.

Callsen, living in Neu-Isenburg , in 1968, along with other defendants of the Darmstadt District Court in the so called Callsen process for their involvement in the mass shootings to a prison sentence of 15 years in Babi Yar prison convicted.

The factual novel The Well-intentioned by the writer Jonathan Littell combines a fictional biography with various real events and people of the Holocaust , including the events in Babyn Jar with the people Kuno Callsen and Paul Blobel.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Citizens' Office of the Neu-Isenburg City Administration
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 89.
  3. ↑ Torben Fischer, Matthias N. Lorenz (ed.): Lexicon of coping with the past in Germany. Debate and discourse history of National Socialism after 1945 , transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, p. 144, ISBN 978-3-89942-773-8 .
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 90.
  5. ^ Irmtrud Wojak: Fritz Bauer 1903-1968. A biography. , (= Series of publications by the Fritz Bauer Institute, vol. 23), Verlag CH Beck oHG, Munich, 2nd revised edition 2009, p. 426.
  6. ↑ Wolfram Wette: The Wehrmacht. Enemy images, war of extermination, legends . Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-596-15645-9 , p. 127.
  7. ↑ See also: Judgment of November 29, 1968, p. 474, in: BA Ludwigsburg, 204 AR-Z 269/1960, vol. 34, 683 sheet, p. 539, quoted. n .: Wolfram Wette: Civil courage under extreme conditions. Outraged, helpers and rescuers in the Wehrmacht in: Freiburger Rundbrief 1/2004.
personal data
SURNAME Callsen, Kuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilster
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2001
Place of death Neu-Isenburg