Robert Mohr (SS member)

Robert Adolf Mohr (* December 24, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 3, 1989 in Solingen ) was an employee of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), head of two state police stations and from 1941 to 1942 commander of a task force of the security police and the security service in the Soviet Union .

Before 1945

Robert Mohr - not to be confused with the same staff , the state police control center of Munich, in February 1943 Sophie Scholl ( White Rose ) interrogated - put in 1930 at the secondary school in casting the High School , and then studied four years law at the Universities of Giessen , Geneva and Marburg . While still a student, he joined the SS on March 1, 1933 , and the NSDAP two months later .

After the Great State Examination in January 1938, Mohr initially worked as a lawyer’s representative. In September of the same year Mohr joined the Gestapo as an assessor , initially working in the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) and Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin . For a short time he acted as a clerk for the "resettlement" at the commander of the security police and the SD (BdS) in Krakow . After his appointment to the government council in July 1940, he was appointed head of the department for general personnel matters in Office I of the RSHA at the end of 1940 or beginning of 1941. Among other things, he was responsible for all personnel issues relating to the Sipo and SD Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union.

From November 1941 to September 1942 Mohr, who had meanwhile been promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, was himself in charge of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C , which operated in the Ukraine . During this time he ordered the murder of over 2,000 Jewish men, women and children, the mentally ill and partisans . Since March / April 1942 Mohr has also been using gas trucks for this purpose . The trucks, with a body like a furniture truck, could hold at least 60 people. The engine exhaust gases were led into the interior of the car by means of a hose.

In October 1942 Mohr took over the management of the Darmstadt State Police Station. There he organized the further deportation of Jews from his state police district to the extermination camps . On February 15, 1944, the RSHA Mohr transferred the management of the Magdeburg state police station . Mohr started work in Magdeburg on the same day. Since his achievements were "above average" in the opinion of the RSHA, he was appointed to the senior government council on April 20, 1944. On the same date he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer. Mohr and some of his employees used the chaos of the last days of the war to flee Magdeburg from the advancing Americans on April 10, 1945 .

After 1945

Initially, Robert Mohr hid under a false name in Westphalia . In June 1945 he was discovered and interned. At the end of 1946, however, he managed to escape from the Nuremberg- Langwasser camp . A few weeks later, Mohr was arrested again in Düsseldorf and taken to the Darmstadt internment camp . From this he was able to escape again in March 1947. Since then he has lived under the name “Bujara” in the Bergisches Land and held a managerial position in a Remscheid company. After twelve years, the judicial authorities determined his true identity and in November 1959 Mohr was arrested in Burg an der Wupper . After initiating proceedings in June 1963 for aiding and abetting murder , the Wuppertal Regional Court sentenced Robert Mohr on December 13, 1967 to eight years in prison for his crimes in Ukraine. The subject of the proceedings was the shooting and gassing of thousands of Jews and the shooting of communist officials and other civilians, including 800 patients from the Igrin psychiatric clinic near Dnepropetrovsk .

literature

• Alexander Sperk : The Secret State Police and the persecution of the communists in Magdeburg . In: Unwanted, persecuted, murdered. Exclusion and terror during the National Socialist dictatorship in Magdeburg 1933–1945. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg from January 28 to August 3, 2008, Magdeburg 2008, ISBN 3-930030-93-4 , pp. 85–105.
• Alexander Sperk : The state police (head) office in Magdeburg, its leaders and the smashing of the KPD . In: Police & History. Independent interdisciplinary journal for police history , 1/2009, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, ISSN  1865-7354 , pp. 11–12.
• LG Wuppertal, December 30, 1965 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XXII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1981, No. 606, pp. 501–540 Shooting and gassing by 'gas vans' of thousands of Jewish men, women and children. The shooting of communist functionaries, other civilians and 800 inmates of the Igrin insane asylum near Dnepropetrovsk.

Web links

Biography of Robert Mohr ( Memento from August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Solingen registry office No. 233/1989.
2. ↑ Summary of the verdict on justice and Nazi crimes ( memento of the original from April 29, 2015 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : According to this information, a first judgment by the Wuppertal Regional Court of December 30, 1965 and two judgments by the Federal Court of Justice of December 11, 1964 and May 24, 1967.