Paul Schiefelbein

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Paul Richard Schiefelbein (born November 20, 1894 in Berlin ; † November 26, 1975 there ) was a German paramilitary activist and police officer. Among other things, Schiefelbein was the police director of the German occupation administration in Pilsen during the Second World War and was sentenced to a prison term of 15 years in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War .

Life and activity

Birth certificate for Paul Schiefelbein.

Schiefelbein was born out of wedlock to the maid Anna Emilie Schiefelbein. He learned the trade of a business assistant. From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War with the Prussian army . After being injured, he was assigned to the field police in 1917. In the post-war years Schiefelbein worked for the Reichsbahn and after his dismissal there as a sales representative for an office supplies company.

In 1924 and 1925 Schiefelbein held a leading position in the paramilitary defense association Frontbann Nord in Berlin, which was led by Paul Röhrbein . There he learned a. a. Knowing Kurt Daluege , an encounter that was to determine the direction of his later career. In November 1925, on the occasion of the smashing of the Frontbann Nord, Schiefelbein was arrested by the Prussian police, together with around a dozen other leading members of the Frontbann, on suspicion of being a secret group and of violating the Reich President's ordinance prohibiting military associations.

On October 1, 1928, Schiefelbein became a member of the NSDAP (Mgl.-Nr. 101.467).

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, at the instigation of Daluege, who was appointed special commissioner in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in February 1933, Schiefelbein was accepted into the police service and used in the administration of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1940 he was assigned to the police force.

Following the appointment of Daluege as deputy Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia in 1942, Schiefelbein was assigned to Pilsen from December 1, 1942 at Daluege's request as an assistant to the new Police Director Eckold. One year after Eckold left, Schiefelbein, at that time with the rank of Police Major, was appointed the new Police Director of Pilsen in February 1944. He retained this position until the end of the Second World War. From 1942 to 1945 he was one of the most famous officials of the National Socialist occupation administration in Pilsen. From 1943 to 1945 he was responsible for modernizing the air defense in his area of ​​responsibility. Under his direction, permanent units of the air raid police were established, mostly composed of civilians, who were used to repair the damage caused by Allied attacks.

Miroslav Eisenhammer characterizes Schiefelbein as a personally “very incompatible” person who asserted himself as an authority and liked to flaunt his superior position. He used to deal very roughly with subordinates as well as civilians, sometimes attacking them physically, which is why he was hated by the people of Pilsen and became a "symbol of the protectorate regime" for them. On the other hand, "no real crimes" could be proven in the post-war investigations, for example through his influence he tried to prevent the execution of five members of the air defense who were accused of looting after an air raid.

After the end of the war, Schiefelbein was arrested by the Allied occupying powers in Germany and extradited to Pilsen as a war criminal in April 1946 at the request of the Czechoslovak government . There he was tried, which ended in January 1947 with the sentencing to a prison term of 15 years by an extraordinary people's court.

After ten years imprisonment in Czechoslovakia, Schiefelbein was deported to West Germany in the late 1950s. He then lived unobtrusively in Berlin-Heiligensee

family

Schiefelbein was married twice: for the first time he married Anna Lütz on August 30, 1917 in Elbing (born June 27, 1899). This marriage was divorced in 1920 by the district court. He married for the second time in 1937 in Heiligensee.

literature

  • Miroslav Eisenhammer: Major Paul Schiefelbein a jeho působení v Plzni 1942–1945 , in: Minulostí Západočeského kraje / Plzeň: Archiv města Plzně 37, (2002,) pp. 209–232. (German-language summary there p. 231 under the heading "Major Paul Schiefelbein and his activities in Pilsen 1942–1945")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Archives Berlin: Digitalisat to the Roster of the Death of the registry office Berlin-Reinickendorf for the year 1975, p 127 (death certificate 1975/3044) (= P Rep 130/1161.).
  2. ^ Entry on Schiefelbein in the Berlin telephone directory for 1970/1971 .
  3. ^ Telephone book for 1986-1987
  4. ↑ Berlin registry office: marriage register 1917: marriage certificate 497/1917; Divorce Register, Document No. 620/1920.
  5. ↑ Registry office Heiligensee: marriage register 1937, certificate no. 88/1937.
personal data
SURNAME Schiefelbein, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiefelbein, Paul Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paramilitary activist and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1947