Peter Weiss (SS member)

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Peter Weiss (born June 10, 1908 in Forbach , † July 30, 1946 in Rastatt ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and war criminal . He was part of the management staff of the prison-camp Neue Bremm and was on July 30, 1946 executed .

Life

Peter Weiss grew up in Forbach in Baden in rather poor circumstances. He attended the local elementary school until 1922. He then attended the mining vocational and advanced training school, which he presumably left without a qualification. In the following years he made his way as an agricultural laborer in Colmar and the surrounding area. He seldom kept a job longer than a few months. In 1928 he moved to Kuhbach , where he joined the local NSDAP . There he quickly made a career as a political leader and recruited new members for the party. In 1929 he founded an SA formation in Kuhbach . After the seizure of power he was promoted to senior squad leader and temporarily led an SA troop of 150 men.

In 1937 he became a police secretary at the Gestapo in Kassel. However, he had to give up the position in 1942, as he was sentenced by the SS and Police Court to five months in a prison camp. The exact reasons could not be determined later. In the Rastatt trial , he testified that he had expressed himself critically about the party leadership, which was presumably only a protective claim. Presumably it was instead about the embezzlement of army goods. He was serving his sentence in the SS prison camp in Danzig .

After his prison sentence he was transferred to the Gestapo in Lublin, where he worked as an administrative clerk until August 1943. It is unknown whether he was involved in the “ Aktion Erntefest ”, a mass execution of more than 40,000 people that took place in his administrative district. In August 1943 he came to the Neue Bremm prisoner camp, where he became the assistant to camp commandant Fritz Schmoll . In the later trial he was described by Captain Brian Julian W. as the "bad type of sadist " who did not take an active part in the abuse of prisoners of war , but commanded and ordered torture exercises.

In the Rastatt war crimes trial , he was sentenced to death along with 15 other defendants . The execution was carried out on July 30, 1946.

literature

  • Elisabeth Thalhofer: Neue Bremm - Gestapo terror site. An extended police prison and its perpetrators 1943–1944 . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2002, ISBN 3-86110-320-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Thalhofer: Neue Bremm - Gestapo terror site. An extended police prison and its perpetrators 1943–1944. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2002. ISBN 3-86110-320-6 , pp. 177-180.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Thalhofer: Neue Bremm - Gestapo terror site. An extended police prison and its perpetrators 1943–1944. St. Ingbert 2002, p. 180 f.
  3. ^ Elisabeth Thalhofer: Neue Bremm - Gestapo terror site. An extended police prison and its perpetrators 1943–1944. St. Ingbert 2002, p. 183.
  4. ↑ The perpetrators in the Gestapo camp "Neue Bremm". Erinnert-euch.de, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Forbach
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1946
Place of death Rastatt