Rudolf Hotzel

Rudolf Hotzel (* 14. May 1909 in Vitzeroda ; † 24. March 1981 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a collaborator in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and leader of a detail of the Einsatzgruppe B .

Before 1945

Rudolf Hotzel was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 606.732) and the SS (SS number 113.526).

From 1937 to 1939 he worked as a staff leader for the SD subsection Gumbinnen . From 1939 then for the SD upper section northeast ( Königsberg ). In the same year he became SS leader at the Einsatzkommando 1 V. At the beginning of 1940 he worked as head of the SD Hohensalza and in April 1940 he switched to the department IB (education and training) as a group leader in the Reich Security Main Office . In 1942 he took over the management of the Sipo and SD leadership school in Berlin-Charlottenburg and shortly afterwards he became head of the RSHA again, this time of Section I B 2 (youngsters). In October 1944 he was appointed leader of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B , which he then headed until 1945.

SS career

September 13, 1936 SS-Untersturmführer
January 30, 1938 SS-Obersturmführer
September 11, 1938 SS-Hauptsturmführer
January 30, 1939 SS-Sturmbannführer
May 1, 1942 SS-Obersturmbannführer

After 1945

After 1945 Rudolf Hotzel worked as a master glazier in Bad Hersfeld. He was questioned as a witness in the Einsatzgruppen trial .

supporting documents

↑ Rabe, Karl Hermann, u. a., for the shooting of around 3,000 Jews and communist functionaries in the period from June 1941 to the end of 1944 (activity as SK of Einsatzgruppe B) by members of SK 7b of Einsatzgruppe B (Hamburg Public Prosecutor's Office 147 Js 34/67). Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 271.
↑ James L. Taylor: From Weimar to Nuremberg - a Historical Case Study of Twenty-Two Einsatzgruppen Officers (MA thesis at the Department of History at Ohio University from November 2006, supervised by Prof. Norman JW Goda)

personal data
SURNAME	Hotzel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS man
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vitzeroda
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1981
Place of death	Bad Hersfeld

[1] Rabe, Karl Hermann, u. a., for the shooting of around 3,000 Jews and communist functionaries in the period from June 1941 to the end of 1944 (activity as SK of Einsatzgruppe B) by members of SK 7b of Einsatzgruppe B (Hamburg Public Prosecutor's Office 147 Js 34/67). Retrieved April 30, 2018 .

[2] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 271.

[3] James L. Taylor: From Weimar to Nuremberg - a Historical Case Study of Twenty-Two Einsatzgruppen Officers (MA thesis at the Department of History at Ohio University from November 2006, supervised by Prof. Norman JW Goda)