Otto Schulz (SS member)
Otto Schulz (born October 11, 1903 in Hirschfeldau , † after 1953 ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and works manager of the German equipment works in Dachau .
biography
Schulz, a carpenter by trade, was married and had three children. In January 1942 he became a member of the Waffen SS and completed brief military training in the Dachau concentration camp . From February 20, 1943 to the end of April 1945, he was the operations manager of a detachment of 600 prisoners at the SS-owned company, the German Equipment Works in Dachau, to which the operations and workshops of the Dachau concentration camp were subordinate from 1940. His job there was to monitor operations and ensure that the technical requirements for ammunition production were met.
After his arrest, Schulz was tried on November 15, 1945 in the main Dachau trial, which took place as part of the Dachau Trials , on charges of war crimes before an American military court . On December 13, 1945, Schulz was sentenced to death by hanging with 35 other defendants , but the death penalty was later commuted to a twenty-year prison term and then further reduced. In the judgment, the abuse of prisoners, including beatings and harassing behavior, were taken into account as individual acts of excess at Schulz. Schulz stated in his defense that he had beaten prisoners due to a temporary loss of control. Schulz was imprisoned in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison and released in December 1953. Nothing is known about his further life.
literature
- Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al.) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
- Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo by Otto Schulz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 324.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulz, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Untersturmführer in the Dachau concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hirschfeldau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |