Richard Thomalla

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Richard Thomalla as SS-Obersturmführer (approx. 1940)

Richard Thomalla (born October 23, 1903 in Annahof , Upper Silesia , † 1957 in Ulm, declared dead) was the SS-Hauptsturmführer in " Aktion Reinhardt " and was responsible for the construction management of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps and was the first camp commandant during the construction phase .

Life

The civil engineer Richard Thomalla joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.238.872) and SS (SS number 41.206) in 1932. He did his military service in Falkenberg and Oppeln . In 1935 he married. At the end of the 1930s he served in SS units in Wohlau and Breslau and was transferred from Breslau to the General Government on September 6, 1939 , where he was entrusted with managerial tasks in the SS auxiliary police in Czestochowa and Radom . On August 22, 1940, Thomalla was transferred by the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF Ost) Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger to the office of SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik in Lublin. Between August and October 1940 he led a construction brigade in the Belzec area to secure the border fortifications. He was then entrusted with the establishment of police and SS bases in Starakonstantinow , Zwiahel and Kiev as part of the General Plan East . From November 1941 Thomalla took over the central construction management of the SS in Zamość . As part of “Aktion Reinhardt” he supervised the construction of the Belzec extermination camp (site manager: Josef Oberhauser ) and was the construction manager and designer of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps himself. In this function he was briefly the first camp commandant during the development phase of Sobibor (March to April 1942) and Treblinka (May to June 1942). According to unconfirmed information, he was allegedly executed by the NKVD in Jičín (Czechoslovakia) on May 12, 1945 . Thomalla was pronounced dead in Ulm in 1957.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-596-16048-0

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personal data
SURNAME Thomalla, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer, entrusted with the construction of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps as part of Aktion Reinhardt
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Annahof , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: May 12, 1945
Place of death Jičín (Czechoslovakia)