Ludwig Klemm

Ludwig Klemm (born August 9, 1917 in Odessa , † 1979 in Limburg ) was SS-Unterscharführer and deputy commander of the Izbica ghetto during World War II .

Life

Before 1939 Ludwig Klemm, a ethnic German , is said to have served as a Polish officer in the 3rd artillery regiment in the barracks of Zamosc . Together with his superior SS-Hauptscharführer Kurt Engels , he led the Gestapo branch in Izbica of the Gestapo in Zamosc. Both murdered Jews of all ages in the ghetto.

After the war, Klemm went into hiding and took the name Ludwig Jantz (born August 9, 1913 in Freystadt / West Prussia ). In 1945 he was in Thuringia, later he lived in Düsseldorf and finally in Allendorf . There he was arrested on January 17, 1979. In May 1979 he committed suicide in the Limburg remand prison. The trial before the First Large Criminal Chamber of the Limburg Regional Court could no longer take place.

literature

• Hubert Schneider, Andrea Löw, Kerstin Robusch, Stefanie Walter: Germans - Jews - Poles: History of a checkered relationship in the 20th century. Campus, 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37515-1 .
• Mark Roseman: A Past in Hiding. Picador USA, 2002, ISBN 978-0-312-42065-9 .
• Reimar Oltmanns : Searching for traces on scorched earth - reports, reports, narratives on contemporary history - Germany, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa (1969–2009) . BoD , Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9507-4 . Contains the Zeit Magazin report from March 1, 1979 about Ludwig Klemm From Germany: Murderers Among Us .

Web links

• Reimar Oltmanns, From Germany: Murderers Among Us
• Ingrid Schupetta, deportation destination Izbica, 2004 ( Memento from July 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Ralph Smorczewski, "Bridging the Gap," Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2007
• Thomas Toivi Blatt, "From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival," Northwestern University Press, 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Extermination of Zamość Jews and their Resistance. Adam Kopciowski. The Organization of Zamosc Jews and Vicinity, accessed April 11, 2015 .