Rudolf Korndörfer

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Rudolf Korndörfer (born June 20, 1906 in Reichenbach / Saxony ; † April 27, 1992 in Hersbruck ) was a senior government councilor and SS-Sturmbannführer in the National Socialist German Reich , head of the secret state police in Kassel and commander of the Einsatzkommando 11a ( Sarajevo ) and the Einsatzkommando Agram Task Force E ( Croatia ).

Origin and studies

Rudolf Korndörfer was born the son of a businessman. He attended the Realgymnasium in Reichenbach and studied law at the University of Leipzig after graduating from high school . In 1929 he passed the first and in 1933 the second state law examination in Dresden .

time of the nationalsocialism

On May 1, 1933 , Korndörfer joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.916.181) and on February 1, 1934 the SS (membership number 107.409). He resigned from the church and from then on referred to himself as " believers in God ".

After passing the second state examination in law, Korndörfer found employment with a lawyer. He then worked for the public prosecutor's office before starting in April 1935 full-time work for the SD Upper Section Elbe in Dresden, which he had been doing as a volunteer since 1933 . In November 1937 he switched to the Gestapo in Berlin as an assessor .

Korndörfer was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer on November 9, 1938, to SS-Hauptsturmführer on January 30, 1939 and to SS-Sturmbannführer on September 10, 1939.

In July 1939 (according to other sources on December 7, 1940) Korndörfer was appointed head of the Kassel police station. He held this office until September 6, 1941. Under his direction, the Breitenau labor education camp near Guxhagen was set up for the Kassel administrative region in May 1940 .

In September 1941 Korndörfer moved to Metz as the commander of a task force of the security police and the SD . From October 1942 he worked at the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. From May 15 to September 9, 1943, he was in command of Einsatzkommando 11a of Einsatzgruppe E (Croatia) in Sarajevo and, from September 9, 1943, of the Einsatzkommando Agram .

Korndörfer was appointed senior government councilor in November 1944 and awarded the War Merit Cross First Class with Swords by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in the following month . He was also the bearer of the SS skull ring .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gunnar Richter: Das Arbeitsserziehungslager Breitenau (1940–1945) 2004, (dissertation), p. 501 ( online )

literature

  • Gunnar Richter : Breitenau - On the history of a National Socialist concentration camp and labor education camp. Kassel, 1993.

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personal data
SURNAME Korndörfer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, head of the Gestapo in Kassel, commander of task forces
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1992
Place of death Hersbruck