Rudolf Theimer

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Rudolf Theimer (born December 26, 1913 in Marienberg , † November 14, 1978 in Öhringen ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer , member of Sonderkommando 1005 and convicted war criminal .

Life

Theimer was the son of an electrician. He attended elementary and middle school and completed a commercial training. He then worked as a salesman in a textile shop.

Until August 1939 he served as a border police officer at the state police station in Opava. In August 1939 he came to Vienna via Troppau , where he was assigned to a task force for use in Poland . He then belonged to the KdS office in Lublin , from where he was transferred to the border police station in Chelm in early 1940 . After prisoners attempted to break out during the Sobibor uprising on October 14, 1943, the Chelm Border Inspectorate put together a task force. This commando came to the Sobibor extermination camp on October 15 and 16, 1943 and shot hundreds of prisoners. In November 1943 Theimer was assigned to a part of the Sonderkommando 1005 in Chelm, which cleared the mass graves in the nearby forest of Borek. In January 1944, Theimer shot an old man and a woman. When an estimated 33 Jewish prisoners from the commando managed to escape from their earth bunker on the night of February 23 to 24, 1944, at least 24 prisoners were shot by Theimer and his colleagues. In connection with the Slovak popular uprising , Theimer came to Eastern Slovakia in 1944 with the command zbV 27 . This commando murdered at least 158 ​​people and over 110 were transferred to Auschwitz and from there to Ravensbrück .

At the end of the war, Theimer was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in September 1945. He went to Vienna and took odd jobs with the American and Soviet occupying forces. In 1946 he moved to Öhringen. There he got a job as a merchant at the fruit and vegetable processing company Hohenlohe-Franken. He later rose to become dispatch manager and head of production monitoring. In 1954 he married. On November 2, 1960, he was arrested on the basis of investigations by the Bielefeld public prosecutor's office into the events in Cholm. The Heilbronn district court sentenced him to four years in prison on May 14, 1963 for aiding and abetting murder . After his conditional release from prison on September 1, 1965, he worked again as a dispatch manager at his old company.

literature

  • Jens Hoffmann: You can't tell: "Aktion 1005", how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe , Konkret Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-930786-53-4 .
  • Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . WBG, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society, Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 276–277.
  2. ↑ Jens Hoffmann: You can't tell: “Aktion 1005”, how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe . Hamburg 2008, p. 301.
  3. ^ Proceedings in justice and Nazi crimes
personal data
SURNAME Theimer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1978
Place of death Öhringen