Lothar Heimbach

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Lothar Heimbach (born September 25, 1908 in Hoffnungsthal ; † December 8, 1968 there ) was a German police officer, SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of the Gestapo in Białystok .

Life

Lothar Heimbach was the son of a tax officer and administrative secretary. After attending elementary school in his place of birth, he went to the Realgymnasium in Cologne , where he passed his school leaving examination in 1927. In the same year he was called up to the police school in Bonn . After training and trial service, he was appointed detective inspector. From 1934 to 1935 he served in the criminal police in Wuppertal . Shortly afterwards he worked at the Dortmund State Police Station . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . In November 1938 he was assigned to a task force in Karlsbad . In the same year he became a member of the SS . In November 1941 he was transferred to special command 10a of Einsatzgruppe D in southern Russia . In this capacity Heimbach was directly involved in the mass executions in Krasnodar . Because of an illness ( typhus ) he came back to Dortmund in autumn 1942. At the beginning of 1943 he was assigned to the KdS Bialystok as head of Department IV (Gestapo). There participated in the liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto . He was then appointed deputy leader of Einsatzkommando 13 of Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia. From the end of October 1944 he also acted there as base leader in Bánovice nad Bebravou and in December temporarily as leader of the entire command.

After the war ended, he was captured by members of the US Army and interned in Ludwigsburg for some time . In 1947 he returned to Hoffnungsthal, where he initially carried out various commercial activities. In July 1956 he was hired as chief criminal secretary in Cologne . A year later he headed a theft squad. On 22 September 1960 he was arrested and was in custody . On April 14, 1967, he was sentenced to nine years in prison by the Bielefeld Regional Court . He was responsible for the deportations of Jews to Auschwitz , Treblinka and Majdanek and for their shootings. He has been charged with complicity in the murder of at least 21,600 cases. Heimbach served only a small part of the sentence.

literature

  • Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the Annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . WBG, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-25973-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French L. MacLean: The Field Men: the SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units . Schiffer Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-7643-0754-1 , p. 68.
  2. ↑ a b c d Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . Darmstadt 2013, p. 184.
  3. ↑ a b Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . Darmstadt 2013, p. 185.
personal data
SURNAME Heimbach, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hope valley
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1968
Place of death Hope valley