Alexander Riesle
Albert Wilhelm Alexander Riesle (born May 4, 1908 in Hanover ; † November 14, 2001 in Taunusstein ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and convicted war criminal.
Riesle was the son of a watchmaker . He came into contact with National Socialism as a teenager and became a member of the SA and NSDAP in 1922 . There he was able to rise to the position of cell manager; In 1937 he came to the Hanover police force . After the attack on the Soviet Union , from September 1941 he was a member of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C under Paul Blobel . The command carried out numerous mass murders of Jews , communists and other groups of people. So were u. a. End of September 1941 in the space Kiev at the massacre at Babi Yar murdered 33,771 Jews. Riesle was part of the special command until autumn 1942, with interruptions. His last commander in this unit was SS-Standartenführer Eugen Steimle , Riesle was SS-Hauptsturmführer most recently. Then he was detective inspector of the Karlsruhe detective .
After the war ended in 1945, Riesle went into hiding as Bernd Claasen in his hometown of Hanover and ran a taxi company until 1950. He was tracked down by the public prosecutor's office in the mid-1960s and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting murder in Darmstadt with Kuno Callsen , August Häfner and other defendants from the former Sonderkommando 4a.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945. Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007.
- Yitzhak Arad (Ed.): The Einsatzgruppen reports: Selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews, July 1941 - January 1943. Holocaust Library, New York 1989, ISBN 0-89604-057-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the Taunusstein registry office No. 103/2001.
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 498
- ^ Indictment against Einsatzgruppe C, count (H). In: Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. , Vol. IV. District of Columbia 1950, p. 19. This charge is based as evidence u. a. to the activity and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR No. 101 of October 2, 1941. In: Yitzhak Arad (Ed.): The Einsatzgruppen Reports . New York 1989, p. 168.
- ↑ The Darmstadt Einsatzgruppen Trial 1965-1968 and the mass murder in Babij Yar in the Fritz Bauer Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riesle, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riesle, Albert Wilhelm Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Hauptsturmführer and war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2001 |
| Place of death | Taunusstein |