Rudolf Pavlu

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Rudolf Pavlu (born July 15, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1949 in Römlinghoven ) was an Austrian National Socialist administrative officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

Life

Rudolf Pavlu attended the infantry cadet school after secondary school and was a soldier from August 1918 to October 1919. He received his Matura in 1921 and then studied at the University of World Trade in Vienna. From 1924 to 1934 he was an accountant at the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund . On 13 May 1931 he joined the Austrian Nazi Party in and was on July 25, 1934 on July Putsch involved. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. In 1936 he fled to the German Reich and was employed as a party employee in the refugee relief organization of the NSDAP. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he went back and became an SS member on October 9, 1938 , he achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer . Pavlu was given the position of head of staff at the Reichsstatthalter in Vienna, was sponsored as a party member and in June 1939 was promoted to head of the Vienna State Insurance Institute.

After the German occupation of Poland , he joined Otto Wächter in 1939 as head of staff, district representative and head of the labor department in the administration of the Krakow district in the general government . Wächter commissioned SS-Obersturmbannführer Pavlu in September 1940 with the implementation of the evacuation of the Jews from Krakow. At the end of November and beginning of December 1940, Pavlu ordered the German and Polish police to carry out raids that led to the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Krakow to the province. In April 1941 he was appointed city governor and headed the administration of the capital of the Generalgouvernement. Under his administration, the remaining Jewish population of Krakow was imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto , and he was involved in the deportations to the extermination camps that began. In May 1943, at the instigation of the HSSPF Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Pavlu was called up as a Untersturmführer in the Waffen SS and deployed at the front. On leaving Krakow, Governor General Hans Frank thanked him for making Krakow a German city again.

After the war ended, Pavlu was interned in custody , from which he was able to escape in October 1947. After being arrested again in February 1949, he was able to escape again on April 3, 1949, but put an end to his life as he was threatened with extradition to Poland under the London Statute .

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Further literature

  • Tuviah Friedman (Ed.): The two Viennese illegal Nazis Dr. Otto Wächter as governor in Cracow and Lemberg and Rudolf Pavlu as city governor in Cracow were involved in the murder of the Jews in Cracow and Lemberg . Institute of Documentation in Israel for the Investigation of Nazi War, Haifa 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 , p. 494
  2. ^ Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945 . 2011, p. 38
  3. ^ Andrea Löw, Markus Roth: Jews in Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945 . 2011, p. 42
  4. ↑ Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. Stuttgart 1975, p. 638
personal data
SURNAME Pavlu, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian National Socialist administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death Römlinghoven