Paul Rost

Paul Rost (born June 12, 1904 in Deutschenbora ; † March 21, 1984 in Dresden ) was a German police officer who was involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt ".

origin

Born as the son of a shoe retailer in Deutschebora, a current district of Nossen , the family moved to Meißen in 1908 , where Rost learned the butcher's trade after attending primary school.

Police service

From 1925 he attended the police school in Meißen and was accepted into the Saxon police service in 1926. From 1935 he worked for the security police and was made available in this capacity on May 21, 1940 as police master by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior for a special task . Rost was retrospectively admitted to the NSDAP ( membership number 5.329.148) on May 1, 1937 following an application for membership on October 19, 1937 . He joined the General SS on December 1, 1940 as Untersturmführer (SS no. 382.366).

Second World War

This special task consisted of leading and / or disciplinary supervision of the police detachment required for the cordoning off of the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center in Pirna, which was officially opened on June 28, 1940 , as well as acting as the transport manager of the bus relay when collecting the sick from the intermediate institutions.

After Action T4 was discontinued on August 24, 1941, Rost initially stayed with most of the local staff in Pirna and, according to his own statement, “only carried out relocation transports” . He does not seem to have been involved in the so-called medical mission east, but Paul Rost was transferred to the Aktion Reinhardt task force in Lublin at the beginning of 1942 . In the summer of 1942, Rost joined the leadership force in the Sobibor extermination camp . Because of his police training, he was used for the fight against corruption and theft. After the extermination camp went into operation, he supervised the Jewish sorting command in so-called Camp II. He was also used on the ramp when transports arrived. According to the historian Sara Berger, he stayed there until the end of 1943. According to his own statement, Rost was ordered to undertake a disaster operation in the west in mid-1942. The security guard Willi Großmann testified in the Belzec trial in 1963 that Rost had been in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943 .

After the Reinhardt campaign was over, Rost and most of its personnel were transferred to Trieste on the Adriatic coast in December 1943 . Under Christian Wirth , who at that time was the inspector of the " Special Department Operation R " of the SS and police apparatus under Odilo Globocnik in the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone , Paul Rost said he was a member of the economic police . Rost was promoted to lieutenant in 1944.

After the end of the war

Paul Rost was taken prisoner in Austria in 1945 and was briefly interned in the Habach camp. There he is said to have met Walter Nowak again, who, according to other sources, had been dead since 1943 or 1944. From there he was released after a short time and went back to his family in Dresden . Shortly afterwards, in 1946, the Soviet Army took him into custody. Paul Rost was questioned in the same year as part of the Dresden euthanasia trial and then released again. No further prosecution took place. In 1971, the GDR refused to hear Rost's witnesses in connection with the trial of the Frankfurt am Main regional court against the director of the Sonnenstein killing center, Horst Schumann .

After his release from pretrial detention in September 1946, Rost worked as a construction worker in Dresden.

Paul Rost had been married since 1931 and had four children. He died in Dresden in 1984.

literature

Sara Berger: Experts in Destruction. The T4 Reinhardt network in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-268-4 .
Ernst Klee : "Euthanasia" in the Third Reich. The "destruction of life unworthy of life" . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 .
Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 499.
Christine Pieper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser (eds.): Brown careers. Nazi protagonists in Saxony using Dresden as an example . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 .
Board of Trustees Gedenkstätte Sonnenstein e. V. (Ed.): From the murders of the sick on the Sonnenstein to the "final solution of the Jewish question" in the east. In: Sonnenstein. Contributions to the history of the sun stone and Saxon Switzerland. Issue 3, 2001, ISBN 3-9809880-2-3 .

Web links

Picture of rust in the chapter "Lower ranking SS Camp Personnel".

Individual evidence

↑ Julius Scharnetzky: Paul Rust and Helmut Fischer. From the murders of the sick on the Sonnenstein to the Shoah in Poland and Italy. In: C. Pieper, M. Schmeitzner, G. Naser (Hrsg.): Braune Karrieren . Dresden 2012, p. 173.
↑ The Saxon special route in Nazi "euthanasia": Conference from May 15 to 17, 2001 in Pirna-Sonnenstein. Working group to research the National Socialist "euthanasia" and forced sterilization. Symposium. Klemm & Oelschläger, 2001, p. 115 (online at: books.google.de )
↑ Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein: Contributions to the history of the sun stone and Saxon Switzerland / Kuratorium Gedenkstätte Sonnenstein eV , Pirna, ISBN 3-9809880-2-3 , issue 3/2001, p. 138.
↑ Günther Heydemann, Jan Erik Schulte, Francesca Weil (eds.): Saxony and National Socialism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-36964-7 , p. 197 (online at: books.google.de )
^ Sara Berger: Experts of the destruction. The T4 Reinhardt network in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-268-4 , pp. 153 and 411.
↑ Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein. Issue 3/2001, p. 139.
↑ Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein. Issue 3/2001, p. 112 Note 9
↑ In some representations it is stated that Nowak was either slain in the Sobibór uprising (according to Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926893-33-8 ) or died in Lublin in February 1944 ( Ernst Klee : "Euthansie" in the "Third Reich Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 p. 580)
↑ Boris Böhm, Julius Scharnetzky: Der Dresdner Euthanasie-Prozess 1947. In: Jörg Osterloh, Clemens Vollnhals : Nazi Trials and the German Public: Occupation, Early Federal Republic and GDR , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2012, p. 193 (online at: books .google.de )

personal data
SURNAME	Rust, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German police officer responsible for mass murders of the disabled and Jews under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Deutschebora
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1984
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Julius Scharnetzky: Paul Rust and Helmut Fischer. From the murders of the sick on the Sonnenstein to the Shoah in Poland and Italy. In: C. Pieper, M. Schmeitzner, G. Naser (Hrsg.): Braune Karrieren . Dresden 2012, p. 173.

[2] The Saxon special route in Nazi "euthanasia": Conference from May 15 to 17, 2001 in Pirna-Sonnenstein. Working group to research the National Socialist "euthanasia" and forced sterilization. Symposium. Klemm & Oelschläger, 2001, p. 115 (online at: books.google.de )

[3] Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein: Contributions to the history of the sun stone and Saxon Switzerland / Kuratorium Gedenkstätte Sonnenstein eV , Pirna, ISBN 3-9809880-2-3 , issue 3/2001, p. 138.

[4] Günther Heydemann, Jan Erik Schulte, Francesca Weil (eds.): Saxony and National Socialism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-36964-7 , p. 197 (online at: books.google.de )

[5] Sara Berger: Experts of the destruction. The T4 Reinhardt network in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-268-4 , pp. 153 and 411.

[6] Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein. Issue 3/2001, p. 139.

[7] Boris Böhm: "Careers" - From the Sonnenstein to the extermination camps. In: Sonnenstein. Issue 3/2001, p. 112 Note 9

[8] In some representations it is stated that Nowak was either slain in the Sobibór uprising (according to Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926893-33-8 ) or died in Lublin in February 1944 ( Ernst Klee : "Euthansie" in the "Third Reich Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 p. 580)

[9] Boris Böhm, Julius Scharnetzky: Der Dresdner Euthanasie-Prozess 1947. In: Jörg Osterloh, Clemens Vollnhals : Nazi Trials and the German Public: Occupation, Early Federal Republic and GDR , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2012, p. 193 (online at: books .google.de )