Robert Jührs

Robert Emil Franz Xaver Jührs (born October 17, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; † unknown) was a German SS sergeant and involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt ".

Career

After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter, which he had to give up in 1934 due to an eye injury. He joined the NSDAP and SA in 1930. In 1935 he switched from the SA to the SS . From the mid-1930s he worked for the Frankfurt / Main Municipal Stage, the Winter Relief Organization and the Hessen State Labor Office. Jührs was married twice; the first marriage had two children.

His service for " Aktion T4 " started in June 1941. Jührs was employed as a painter and filing files in the Hadamar euthanasia institute .

He was then used from June 1942 to March 1943 in the Belzec extermination camp . There he worked in various functions and also took part in the shooting of Jews. In March 1943 he was transferred to the SS labor camp Dorohucza and from the beginning of November 1943 to the Sobibor extermination camp . There he was involved in the liquidation of the camp and the shooting of the last Jewish inmates until December 1943. Thereafter, it was in the operational zone Adriatisches Küstenland for special department use R to Trieste added that the "extermination", the confiscated Jewish property and the antipartisan served.

Before the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Americans on May 1, 1945 , from which he was released to Frankfurt / Main in August 1945. There he was arrested again, was taken to the Dachau internment camp and was indicted and acquitted in the Hadamar trial. After his return to Frankfurt / Main he worked as a worker, newspaper deliverer and porter for a hotel. After working as an independent scrap dealer, he worked as a caretaker.

In the Belzec trial , Jührs was charged with aiding and abetting community murder in 360,000 cases and on January 30, 1964, was put out of court due to a lack of orders . In the Sobibor trial , Jührs was charged with complicity in the joint murder of 30 people and on January 15, 1965, due to a lack of orders, he was again put outside of judicial proceedings. Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

• Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz eV: Belzec , Reader - based on a previously unpublished manuscript by the historian and director of the Belzec memorial, Robert Kuwalek

Web links

• Belzec Perpetrators at www.deathcamps.org