Kurt Stawizki

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Kurt August Julian Stawizki , also Stawitzki , (born November 12, 1900 in Kiel , † September 20, 1959 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German criminal investigator, SS leader and perpetrator of the Holocaust . Paul Stawitzki is a misspelling of the name Kurt Stawizki.

biography

Stawizki, son of a regional chief minister, took part as a soldier in the final phase of the First World War. In 1919 he was a member of the Stein Freikorps in Schleswig-Holstein . He then entered the police force and reached the rank of lieutenant in 1927. In 1933, Stawizki moved from the Hamburg police station to the Gestapo . Soon afterwards, Stawizki was involved in the murder of a member of the Kiel SA who was an accomplice in a smuggling ring in the port of Hamburg that Stawizki had covered . The related investigations against Stawizki remained inconclusive. Even before the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in March 1932 ( membership number 1,114,037) and in June 1932 the SS (SS number 44,889). Within the SS, he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1944 . Between 1936 and 1939 Stawizki worked for the Gestapo in Opole .

After the attack on Poland , Stawizki became head of the Sanok border police commissioner . From mid-October 1940 Stawizki worked as a commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) in Krakow . From July 1941 he was head of the Gestapo in Lemberg and subordinated to the local commander of the security police and the SD (BdS). In Lemberg, Stawizki led a task force that murdered Jews. He was also involved in the deportation of Jews to the Belzec extermination camp . During the special operation 1005 he headed a commando that exhumed and burned the bodies of murdered Jews and prisoners of war from mass graves. Stawizki is said to have been involved in the murder of at least 160,000 Jews.

In October / November 1943 he moved to the Gestapo in Hamburg . There he was involved in a leading position in the smashing of resistance groups such as the Hamburg branch of the White Rose , the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group and the Etter-Rose-Hampel group .

Then Stawizki worked at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin . At the RSHA he was a member of the July 20th Special Commission that investigated the failed assassination attempt of July 20th, 1944 on Adolf Hitler . Also Hans von Dohnanyi was brutally interrogated in this regard by Stawizki. As a member of the special commission on July 20, he organized the execution of Wilhelm Canaris , Hans Oster and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945 . Stawizki stayed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp until April 15, 1945. From there, on the morning of April 15, 1945, he sent a telegram to SS-Gruppenführer Richard Glücks and Heinrich Müller , in which he announced the death of Friedrich von Rabenau . On the same day he returned to Berlin. On April 21, 1945 - during the Battle of Berlin - Stawizki received the order from Müller to execute opponents of the Nazi regime who were detained as prisoners in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison . Stawizki commanded a firing squad made up of thirty SS men who shot fifteen prisoners from the Lehrter Strasse prison in two groups on a nearby site of ruins with a shot in the neck on the night of April 22nd to 23rd . A sixteenth prisoner, Herbert Kosney , survived seriously injured by pretending to be dead. Kosney later reported on the execution. Three other inmates from the Lehrter Strasse cell prison were also murdered the following night from April 23 to 24, 1945.

Stawizki then settled on the so-called Rattenlinie Nord to Flensburg. On May 1, 1945, he received from the Gestapo Flensburg a forged passport in the name of Kurt Stein to go into hiding, as well as funds to make this easier. Stawizki alias Stein moved to Bad Godesberg in October 1945 and worked for the registry of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1953 until his death . It was not until 1970 that the judiciary revealed that Kurt Stein was identical to Kurt Stawizki.

literature

  • Johannes Tuchel : " ... and the rope is waiting for all of you.": The Lehrter Strasse cell prison after July 20th. In: Peter Steinbach u. Johannes Tuchel (Ed.), Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center , Series A, Volume 7, Berlin 2014, 237–250
  • Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Tuchel: " ... and the rope is waiting for all of them.": The Lehrter Strasse cell prison after July 20. In: Peter Steinbach u. Johannes Tuchel (Ed.), Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center , Series A, Volume 7, Berlin 2014, 241 a. Note 30
  2. ^ Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 , Bonn 1996, p. 438.
  3. ↑ Johannes Tuchel: " ... and the rope is waiting for all of them.": The Lehrter Strasse cell prison after July 20. In: Peter Steinbach u. Johannes Tuchel (Ed.), Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center , Series A, Volume 7, Berlin 2014, 238
  4. ↑ Kurt Stawizki on www.dws-xip.pl.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 598.
  6. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Munich 1997, p. 421.
  7. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 598.
  8. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: German blood and empty folders - The German Research Foundation celebrates its 80th birthday and makes its history more beautiful. In: The time . Edition 42/2000.
  9. ^ A b Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Memorial event - The last victims of the Gestapo in Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 21, 2010.
  10. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933-1945. Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 , p. 374 f.
  11. ^ A b Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Done by the state police. In: The world . April 21, 2010.
  12. ↑ The Murder of General Friedrich von Rabenau. When, Where and How Did It Happen? In: Frode Weierud's CryptoCellar. Cryptology and Its History .
  13. ↑ Werner desert: Remembering - not suppressing. In: We in Reinickendorf. Edition 11/2008
  14. ↑ German Resistance Memorial Center: The Victims of the Murder Actions between April 22 and 24, 1945.
  15. ↑ Stephan Link: "Rattenlinie Nord". War criminals in Flensburg and the surrounding area in May 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Hrsg.): Mai '45. End of the war in Flensburg. Flensburg 2015, p. 22.
  16. ↑ Angela Bottin: Narrow Time - Traces of Expellees and Persecutees at the Hamburg University . Hamburg 1991, 76
personal data
SURNAME Stawizki, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stawitzki, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal inspector and SS leader as well as perpetrators of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1959
Place of death bad Godesberg