Rudolf Schröder (Gestapo)
Rudolf Walter Schröder (born November 7, 1903 in Dresden , † December 17, 1981 in Brunsbüttel ) was a German Gestapo officer .
Life
Rudolf Schröder was the son of a customs inspector. He attended the citizen school and the humanistic grammar school in Dresden . From 1923 to 1928 he studied law in Tübingen and Leipzig and passed the second state law examination in Dresden in 1934. He joined the NSDAP and SA in November 1931 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Schröder became an auxiliary police officer in January 1933 and was involved in protective custody matters, political criminal matters and post blocking matters. At the end of 1933 he was briefly a member of the SA Feldjägerkorps . On July 1, 1934, Schröder was accepted into the civil service of the Gestapo in Saxony. In November 1934 he moved from the SA to the Schutzstaffel (SS). In 1936/37 he was staff leader and then head of department at the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) in Leipzig and Munich. In Stuttgart he was appointed to the government council in 1937 and promoted to Sturmbannführer in the SS ; other locations were Köslin and Hildesheim .
In February 1940 he was appointed head of the Gestapo in Bielefeld . In June 1941 he took part in the war against the Soviet Union and was a liaison officer with Einsatzgruppe B in the Soviet Union, which committed murders of the civilian population and mass murders of Jews there. From December 1941 to August 1944, Schröder was head of the Gestapo in Reichenberg and thus responsible for Gestapo operations in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . One of his tasks was the registration and deportation of the Jews still living in the Sudetenland to the concentration and extermination camps or to the Theresienstadt ghetto . From July 1944 on, he was head of the Gestapo in Weimar as a senior government councilor and SS-Obersturmbannführer until the end of the war .
After 1945 he lived as a worker in Wernigerode and left the GDR via West Berlin in 1950 . He then worked as an administrative clerk at the St. Goarshausen community and lived in Reichenberg .
In late 1960 Schröder was in Paderborn for two months in custody taken. He was charged with directing an unlawful execution of a Polish civilian worker in Hampenhausen on July 26, 1940 , ordered by the Reich Security Main Office , which he had carried out publicly as a deterrent. On November 12, 1962, he was sentenced to one year in prison by the Paderborn Regional Court for “ aiding and abetting manslaughter ” .
literature
- "LG Paderborn November 13, 1962". In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, vol. XVIII, ed. by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs and CF Rüter. Amsterdam: University Press, 1978, No. 543, pp. 715-726
Web links
- Rudolf Schröder , at Hotel Silber [Biographical data based on the court judgment]
- Rudolf Schröder , at Yad Vashem [Biographical data based on the court judgment]
- Rudolf Schröder , at Marjorie-Wiki [Biographical data based on the court judgment]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the Brunsbüttel registry office No. 274/1981.
- ↑ Information on the curriculum vitae at LG Paderborn, November 13, 1962
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Rudolf Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Gestapo officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th December 1981 |
| Place of death | Brunsbuettel |