Robert Schefe

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Robert Karl Wilhelm Schefe (born August 23, 1909 in Schwerin ; † 1945 ) was a German lawyer with the rank of government councilor, SS-Obersturmbannführer , Gestapo employee and leader of the Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe V in Poland .

Life

After completing his school career, Robert Schefe studied law at the universities in Berlin, Rostock and Jena . Schefe received his doctorate from the University of Jena with a dissertation on copyright protection for the radio broadcast , which appeared in 1935.

He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1,027,861) in April 1932. He also became a member of the SS in February 1934 (membership number 267.268). In 1934 Schefe became a member of the SD . In June 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in the SS .

Schefe began his service in the SD main office in 1937 . From September 1938 to February 1940 he was head of the Allenstein state police station . In the meantime, from August to November 1939, he also headed Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe V , which was used to murder the Polish intelligentsia during the attack on Poland . In 1940 Schefe was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class , for his “special achievements” . From spring 1940 to January 1942 Schefe was head of the Gestapo Lodz .

Schefe then represented the head of Group VA ( Reich Criminal Police Office ) of the Reich Security Main Office Paul Werner until March 1943 and was also a representative of Arthur Nebe in this function . At the end of 1942 he was involved in drafting the law on the treatment of non- residents.

Then Schefe was head of the Berlin criminal police until the end of the war. During the Battle of Berlin , Schefe formed a homicide commission after eight murder victims were discovered on April 23, 1945 on the Ulap site . After it became clear that the dead were victims of the Gestapo from the Lehrter Strasse cell prison , the investigation ended. Schefe probably died during the Battle of Berlin. Schefe was declared dead on May 31, 1945 by the Vienna Regional Court .

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  1. ↑ Alexander B. Rossino: Hitler strikes Poland - Blitzkrieg, Ideology and Atrocity , Kansas City 2003, p. 47.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 528.
  3. ↑ Robert Schefe on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 35.
  5. ^ Alfred Bernd Gottwaldt, Norbert Kampe: NS-Tyranny: Contributions to historical research and legal reappraisal , Edition Hentrich, 2005, p. 157.
  6. ↑ Dieter Pohl: Iron Cross. Order for Mass Murder . In: Die Zeit , issue 24 from June 5, 2008
  7. ^ Adalbert Rückerl (Ed.): National Socialist Extermination Camps in the Mirror of German Criminal Trials. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno . dtv 2904, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-02904-8 , p. 247.
  8. ↑ Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-87-5 , p. 316.
  9. ^ Reprint of the drafts for a community alien law by Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "community aliens". Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933–1945 , Koblenz 1998 (= materials from the Federal Archives No. 5).
  10. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Memorial event - The last victims of the Gestapo in Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost , issue of April 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schefe, Robert Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS leader, Gestapo employee and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH 1945