Rudolf Batz
Rudolf Christoph Batz (born November 10, 1903 in Langensalza , Erfurt administrative region , † February 8, 1961 in Wuppertal ) was a German lawyer and SS leader. From July 1 to November 4, 1941, Batz was responsible for the mass murder of Jews in the Baltic States as the leader of the Einsatzkommando 2 .
Life
Batz finished his school career in March 1922 with the Abitur in Hanover and was then a working student for several years. He then completed a law degree at the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen , which he graduated in 1934. Batz, a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933, and the SS since December 10, 1935 , was a consultant at the Secret State Police Office in Berlin from 1935 . From the beginning of June 1936 to mid-June 1938 he took over the deputy management of the state police headquarters in Breslau and from the beginning of October 1936 also worked as a political advisor to the government in Breslau. From mid-July 1939 he headed the state police headquarters in Linz and from December 1939 the state police headquarters in Hanover. Batz was since 1938. Government and was in the SS for 1940 sturmbannführer transported.
After the beginning of the Second World War , he was in the "security police operation" in The Hague from mid-October 1940 to early January 1941 . After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union , he headed the 40-man Einsatzkommando 2 (EK2) of Einsatzgruppe A and was thus responsible for the mass murder of predominantly Jewish people in the Baltic States . His adjutant during this time was Gerhard Freitag , who, despite his involvement in the mass murder, was accepted into the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and worked there as a senior government criminal until his retirement in 1973. Batz was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1942.
In 1943 Batz became the commander of the Security Police (KdS) in Krakow and then head of the Gestapo in Hanover . In the SS he rose to SS-Standartenführer in 1945 . Most recently, from February 2, 1945 until the end of National Socialist rule in the Rhineland, he was Inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Düsseldorf , Military District VI
Batz, who was married and had three children, was able to live undisturbed in the Federal Republic of Germany under false names for a long time after the end of the war . In 1960 he was arrested and committed suicide in custody suicide .
literature
- Helmut Krausnick , Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The troop of the Weltanschauung war . DVA, Stuttgart 1981; ISBN 3421019878 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the Wuppertal registry office No. 330/1961.
- ↑ a b Biography overview Rudolf Batz
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt 2007, p. 30
- ^ State archive NRW
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Batz, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Batz, Rudolf Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS leader and perpetrator of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langensalza |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1961 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |