Richard Wiechert

Richard Hans Wiechert (born May 19, 1906 in Angerburg , East Prussia , † March 4, 1978 in Stammheim ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer , member of the office of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Minsk and the Stapo control center in Tilsit .

Life

Wiechert was the fourth child of a deaf and dumb teacher. He grew up in Tilsit, left secondary school at the age of 17 and began training as a car mechanic, which he completed in 1927. At first he worked as a car mechanic in Tilsit, but at the end of 1928 he enrolled at the trade college in Köthen to study mechanical engineering. After six semesters, he broke off his studies in 1931 due to financial difficulties and worked for a farmer for a few months and then as a employed driving instructor. In 1933 he became a member of the SS , in that year he was hired as a driver for the Gestapo Tilsit. A year later he was in charge of the driver's department. From 1938, however, he only wanted to have been employed as a technical officer, who was responsible for the vehicles, weapons and ammunition, as well as directing target practice and sports courses.

In the same year he participated as a member of a task force in the invasion of the Sudetenland and in 1939 in the invasion of Poland . This task force in Poland was involved in shootings. From June to August 1941, as a member of the Tilsit police station, he participated in four mass shootings of Jews in Lithuania .

In September 1942 he was assigned to a Sipo office in Krasnogwardeisk and from there to Riga . In October 1942 he was transferred to the KdS Minsk office and was involved in shootings in Minsk. He participated in the evacuation of the Minsk ghetto in part, in which 9,000 people were killed, and the liquidation of the ghetto in Slutsk were shot in February 1943 in which 1,600 Jews. In November 1943 he returned to Tilsit and passed the aptitude test for senior administration at the Reich School in Prague . He was then employed as head of the vehicle relay at the Stapostelle in Frankfurt am Main , at the RSHA in Berlin and in Munich .

On April 20, 1945 Wiechert was taken prisoner near Zell am See , was interned on June 26, 1945 and released in July 1947. He then worked as an unskilled worker in a concrete factory near Sulzbach-Rosenberg , then as a car fitter for the Gutbrod company in Calw . From 1954 he worked as a drawing controller at the Kiefer company in Gärtringen until he was hired as a technical employee in the parts list office at Daimler-Benz AG in Sindelfingen in 1957 . He was heard as a witness in the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial against leading members of the Einsatzkommando, Gestapo and SD Tilsit. The Koblenz public prosecutor's office investigated him because of his involvement in shootings in Minsk. He was arrested on December 2, 1959. The District Court of Tuebingen sentenced him on 10 May 1961 to murder in 716 cases to four years and six months imprisonment. The proceedings of the Koblenz public prosecutor's office against him in December 1970 were dropped.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 278–279
2. ^ Justice and Nazi crimes. Procedure serial no. 509

literature

• Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .