Rudolf Creutz
Rudolf Johann Friedrich Creutz (born April 6, 1896 in Trieste , † July 8, 1980 in Vienna ) was a German SS leader and a war criminal convicted in the Nuremberg trials .
Life
Creutz completed his school career in 1914 with a secondary school diploma at a grammar school in Karlsruhe . He then took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . After the war, Creutz was discharged from the army in 1919 with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. Then he worked in his parents' business. He then worked as a commercial clerk from 1921 to 1923 in Hamburg , then in Vienna and finally from 1925 to the end of 1931 in Neustadt an der Haardt . This was followed by a phase of unemployment until 1934. Creutz was married to Marie Margarethe Christiane Karoline Katharine, Countess Resseguier of Miremont. The couple had a son.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Creutz became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,367,675) and the SS (membership number 77,813) in the spring of 1933 . From 1934 he worked full-time for the SS, initially as an administrative officer in SS Section II ( Wiesbaden ), then from October 1935 as a staff leader at SS Upper Section II in Dresden and finally in the central office of the SS main office.
After the beginning of the Second World War , Creutz became Ulrich Greifelt's deputy as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity (RKFDV) and, after the agency was renamed, since June 11, 1941, at the same time head of Office Group A of the now so-called “Staff Main Office of the RKFDV”. In November 1941 , Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler entrusted this office with the entire "settlement and development planning and its implementation in the area and the areas under the sovereignty of the Reich"; this also included the propaganda for the settlement idea. Creutz was responsible for part of the “re-Germanization program”, in which Polish orphans were selected according to their “racial appearance” so that they could be raised in Germany as children of “Nordic parents”. This deportation and Germanization also included Polish children whose parents had been sent to concentration camps because of anti-German activities .
In the General SS, Creutz reached the rank of SS brigade leader on November 9, 1943 . In the Waffen-SS , he rose to at least SS-Oberführer .
After the end of the Second World War, Creutz was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on March 10, 1948, in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS for abducting Jews, Poles, Yugoslavs, Alsatians and Luxembourgers. In 1951, his sentence was reduced to ten years and in 1954 he was released from Landsberg correctional facility .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich - who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Frankfurt am Main, 2007, p. 96.
- Gerd R. Ueberschär (Hrsg.): The National Socialism in front of the court. Allied trials against war criminals and soldiers 1943–1952 / 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-13589-3 .
Web links
- Questioning of Rudolf Creutz in the context of the Nuremberg trials . In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-0699 ( online , PDF; minutes of the 1947 interrogations of Creutz in the context of the Nuremberg trials).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full name in: Czesław Madajczyk, Stanisław Biernacki: Vom Generalplan Ost zum Generalsiedlungsplan , Saur, 1994, p. 562
- ↑ a b list 324 - SS-Brigadführerów w General SS i Waffen-SS. In: dws-xip.pl. Retrieved December 9, 2014 (Polish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Creutz, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Creutz, Rudolf Johann Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS leader and convicted war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Vienna |