Rudolf Schlegel

Rudolf Schlegel (born July 11, 1913 in Chemnitz ; † November 19, 1983 in Peißenberg ) was German SS-Hauptsturmführer , head of Department III ( SD ) at the commander of the Security Police and SD (KdS) in Minsk and part of the commando leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of the Einsatzgruppe B .

Life

In Chemnitz he attended elementary school. In March 1933, he successfully passed the Abitur at the secondary school in Chemnitz. This was followed by a six-month preparatory course for the profession of trade teacher. Then he began studying at the Pedagogical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden . He passed the trade teacher exam in autumn 1938.

From 1933 to 1935 he was a member of the SA . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . In the same year he joined the SS . With the attack on the Soviet Union , he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 8. From December 8, 1941 to May 1943, he was a member of the office of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in Minsk, where he headed Department III (SD). On February 8, 1943, he was the liquidation of the ghetto of Slutsk involved; as SS-Hauptsturmführer he led a firing squad. From May 1943 until the end of the war he was deployed in the SD command section in Prague .

After the war he went into hiding as a civilian. Until 1949 he worked as a worker in agriculture and in a brick factory. After that he was a representative for chocolate articles. In 1955 he took up a job at Daimler-Benz in Untertürkheim , where he taught as an instructor in the field of commercial training. On May 6, 1960 Schlegel was arrested on suspicion of crimes in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union . On May 21, 1963 he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting murder by the Koblenz district court .

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ Date and place of birth according to: Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, p. 264
↑ Bert Hoppe (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 8: Soviet Union with annexed areas II . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , p. 582
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 538
↑ Document VEJ 8/242 in: Bert Hoppe (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews ... , Volume 8: Soviet Union annexed territories II . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , pp. 581-584.

personal data
SURNAME	Schlegel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Hauptsturmführer, Teilkommandofführer of the Einsatzkommando 8 and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1983
Place of death	Peissenberg

[1] Date and place of birth according to: Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, p. 264

[2] Bert Hoppe (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 8: Soviet Union with annexed areas II . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , p. 582

[Klee-3] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 538

[4] Document VEJ 8/242 in: Bert Hoppe (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews ... , Volume 8: Soviet Union annexed territories II . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , pp. 581-584.