Rudolf Röder (SS member)

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Rudolf Peter Röder (born October 30, 1902 in Munich , † April 14, 1991 in Kiefersfelden ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , inspector of the forced labor camps (ZAL) in Galicia and convicted war criminal .

Life

Rudolf Röder was born on October 30, 1902. He attended elementary school and began his training as an electrical engineer. In 1919 he joined the Epp Freikorps . In 1923 he took part in the Hitler putsch . In 1927 he became a laboratory assistant at the Munich University Hospital. In June 1932 he became a member of the SS (SS No. 60,390). On August 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1.200.757). In 1938 he took part in the occupation of Austria . In November 1939 he was the leader of Governor Fischer's escort forces in the Warsaw district . Due to drunkenness, he was demoted and expelled from the SS. In November 1941, this was reversed and he was transferred to the SSPF Lemberg , where he was employed as a Jewish officer and then as an inspector of the ZAL. In March 1942, a new SS trial for excessive drunkenness was initiated. On May 6, 1942, he was posted to the Buchenwald weaning camp for SS and police members . On July 19, he returned to the HSSPF Ost. On October 7th he was drafted into the Waffen SS .

After the war he was a Soviet prisoner of war for a short time and then worked as a laboratory technician and owner of a bicycle shop. From January 1961 to September 1964 he was in custody . On April 29, 1968, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Stuttgart Regional Court .

literature

  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0 .
  • Thomas Sandkühler : Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945 . Munich, 1997 p. 419.
  2. a b c d Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Bonn, 1996, p. 434.