Roland Puhr

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Roland Puhr (born January 21, 1914 in Alt Ehrenberg in Bohemia ; † April 15, 1964 in Leipzig ) was an SS-Unterscharführer who was sentenced to death for his crimes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Roland Puhr was a member of the armed forces of Czechoslovakia and since 1936 a member of the Sudeten German Party . In 1938 he deserted and joined the Wehrmacht . There he was soon assigned to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte Brandenburg and the security team of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp due to his political reliability . In 1939 he joined the NSDAP . He personally murdered thirty to forty prisoners, including the Austrian public prosecutor Karl Tuppy , who led the prosecution of Otto Planetta in 1934 for the murder of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss . Furthermore, he was accused of targeted killings in the course of the actions of SS Building Brigade I near Düsseldorf .

After the end of the war, Roland Puhr managed to go into hiding with forged papers. In June 1963 he was arrested by East German authorities and sentenced to death on December 16, 1963 by the Neubrandenburg District Court . Following the rejection of clemency to the Council of State Walter Ulbricht Roland Puhr was on April 15th in 1964 by the "Fall sword machine" in the central place of execution of the GDR in the former Leipzig Prison in Arndtstraße executed .

literature

  • Karola Fings : Düsseldorf-Stoffeln (SS Construction Brigade I) . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 270 ff.
  • Heinz Mohnhaupt, Hans-Andreas Schönfeldt: Norm enforcement in Eastern European post-war societies (1944–1989). Introduction to legal development with source documentation: German Democratic Republic . Klostermann. Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3465033000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mohnhaupt, Schönfeldt: Norm enforcement in Eastern European post-war societies (1944–1989). Introduction to legal development with source documentation: German Democratic Republic (1945–1960). P. 270 (see literature)
  2. ^ GDR justice and Nazi crimes ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Puhr, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS man in the Sachsenhausen extermination camp
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Ehrenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1964
Place of death Leipzig