Kurt Burkhardt (SS member)

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Kurt Burkhardt (born June 24, 1912 in Erfurt ; † June 14, 1942 near Kojdanow ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer . He was head of Section IV B at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Minsk .

Life

Kurt Burkhardt, son of a businessman, only began a commercial apprenticeship after graduating from high school in 1933. On November 1, 1930, he joined the Hitler Youth . In October 1934 he resigned from the Protestant Church for "ideological reasons". In 1935 he was awarded the golden HJ badge . In 1935 he joined the NSDAP and SS and worked as a criminal assistant candidate for the Gestapo . At the end of 1939 he was in command of the 1st Battalion of the 11th Reinforced SS Totenkopfstandarte . After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, he was head of the Gestapo department of Sonderkommando 1a in Lithuania . From March 1942 - after the conversion of Sonderkommando 1a into the KdS office in Minsk - he was head of Section IV B (Jews and Poles) at the KdS commander in Minsk. On June 14, 1942, he was killed by Soviet partisans near Kojdanow.

He was personally involved in shootings in the Minsk ghetto and determined in early 1942 that the climatic conditions "make large-scale liquidation operations [...] not feasible under the current weather conditions, since the frozen ground does not allow the digging of mass graves." Gauleiter Kube ordered the liquidations to continue.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The Einsatzgruppe A of the Security Police and SD 1941/42, Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 477.
  2. ^ Kurt Mehner: The Waffen-SS and Police, 1939-1945: leadership and troops . Militair-Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 1995, p. 291 ( google.de [accessed January 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Bert Hoppe (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 8: Soviet Union with annexed areas II. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , p. 175.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 87.
  5. ^ Robert W. Thurston, Bernd Bonwetsch: The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union . University of Illinois Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-252-02600-3 , pp. 24 ( google.de [accessed January 1, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Dachauer Hefte . Verlag Dachauer Hefte, 2007, p. 213 ( google.de [accessed on January 1, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Dachauer Hefte . Verlag Dachauer Hefte, 2007, p. 210 ( google.de [accessed January 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer and detective commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1942
Place of death at Kojdanow