Kurt Eimann

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Kurt Erich Walter Eimann (born July 28, 1899 in Görlitz ; † August 7, 1980 in Wolfsburg ) was a German SS member with the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer who was convicted of collective murder as a war criminal in 1968 .

Life

Pre-war period and advancement in the SS

Kurt Eimann joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.418.880), SA and SS (SS number 57.319) in 1932, before the takeover of power .

On April 20, 1934, Eimann was promoted to SS-Sturmführer and was initially assigned to the 70th SS standard in Liegnitz and was appointed Obersturmführer on September 15, 1935. Eimann received his next regular promotion on April 20, 1936 in the General SS , when he was appointed SS-Hauptsturmführer there. According to the " Seniority List of the SS " of December 1, 1938, he was employed as Obersturmbannführer (since September 11, 1938) in the staff of SS Section XXVI. On January 1, 1939, Kurt Eimann took over the leadership of the 36th SS Standard in Danzig and was its commander until May 1945.

On July 3, 1939, his superior, SS Brigade Leader Johannes Schäfer , founded a special unit of the SS security service called " SS Guard Eimann ". This unit was officially regarded as the armed reserve stormman of the Danziger SS standard and was called "Reinforced SS Police Reserve for Special Tasks". SS-Sturmbannführer Max Pauly , later commandant in Stutthof and in Neuengamme concentration camp , also belonged to the staff of this new unit . The “SS guard Eimann” was supposed to support the existing police forces in a planned “ Operation Tannenberg ” in order to liquidate the “Polish elements” of the Free City of Danzig in due course.

Second World War

Immediately after the start of the German invasion of Poland , a civil prison camp was set up in Stutthof . It was guarded by the "Eimann Guard", who from November 1939 was subordinate to the Higher SS and Police Leader Richard Hildebrandt . While the organizational preparations for the euthanasia murders were still under way in the German Reich , members of the " SS guard man Eimann " shot around 2000 patients at the Polish sanatorium in Kocborowo (Conradstein) from the end of September to December 1939 . Another 1,400 disabled German foster homes were transported from Pomeranian nursing homes to Neustadt in West Prussia and shot in a forest area in Piasnitz . A Polish work detachment, which consisted of prisoners from the Stutthof camp and had to bury the dead, was then also killed. Kurt Eimann took an active part in the murder in which he shot the first victim personally in order - as he later said - "to be a role model for his men ".

In other Polish institutions in the annexed area, the newly formed districts of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia , disabled people were shot in local care institutions. In addition to the Eimann unit, members of the Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz and Einsatzkommandos were also involved in these murders .

From 1940 Kurt Eimann was deployed in the SS Totenkopfdivision and thus the Waffen SS in various theaters of war on the Western Front. He also took over a unit in both the 11th and the 15th reinforced skull standard. On November 20, 1941, Eimann was seconded to the SS headquarters in Lublin . On January 30, 1943, he received his regular promotion to SS-Obersturmbannführer in the General SS. In the Waffen-SS, however, Kurt Eimann was assigned to the II SS Panzer Corps as SS-Sturmbannführer of the reserve in 1943/44 .

post war period

After 1945 Eimann worked as a dealer in Misburg near Hanover . On December 20, 1968, he was sentenced to four years in prison by the Hanover Regional Court for the collective murder of at least 1200 people and released two years later. Nothing more is known about Eimann's later post-war life.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Wolfsburg registry office No. 807/1980.
  2. ^ SS Personnel Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. October 1, 1934, serial number 2745
  3. ↑ SS Leadership Main Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of December 1, 1938 with amendment booklet dated June 15, 1939. Berlin 1938/39, serial number 1681.
  4. ↑ a b Mark C. Yerger : Allgemeine SS - The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. ISBN 0-7643-0145-4 , p. 188.
  5. ↑ Marek Orski: organization and organizing principles of the Stutthof camp. In: Ulrich Herbert et al. (Ed.): The National Socialist Concentration Camps. Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-15516-9 , p. 286.
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: "Euthanasia" in the Nazi state. Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-24326-2 , p. 97.
  7. ↑ ns-eugenik.de
  8. ^ Peter Longerich: Politics of Destruction. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-03755-0 , p. 236.
  9. ^ Brün Meyer (ed.): Seniority list of the Waffen-SS: SS-Obergruppenführer to SS-Hauptsturmführer. Status July 1, 1944. BIBLIO Verlag, Osnabrück 1987, serial number 706.
  10. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 131.
personal data
SURNAME Eimann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eimann, Kurt Erich Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer and murderer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1980
Place of death Wolfsburg