Siegfried Seidl

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Siegfrid Seidl

Siegfried Seidl (born August 24, 1911 in Tulln ; † February 4, 1947 in Vienna ) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and commandant in the Theresienstadt concentration camp called Ghetto Theresienstadt .

Life

Seidl, son of a master hairdresser who was missing in World War I , began studying law after finishing school. After a few semesters, he dropped out and took on various odd jobs. From 1935 to 1938 he studied German and history at the University of Vienna . In 1941 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, his doctorate was revoked in 1947.

Seidl joined the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 300.738) and the SA in 1931 . In 1932 he switched from the SA to the SS (SS No. 46.106), where he was SS-Oberscharführer in the 11th SS Standard. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, Seidl became a welfare officer with the SS and then a sturmbann adjutant. From 1938 to 1939, Seidel worked as a manager in the security department of the Austro-Fiat aircraft engine works in Vienna-Floridsdorf .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Seidl was drafted into the police in December 1939, the year of his marriage, as a result of his membership in the SS and, according to his own statements, was briefly inspector of the security police in Vienna. From January 1940 he was assigned to the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), namely Division IVB4, to which Adolf Eichmann was subordinate, and assigned to the SS command section in Posen . From January 1940 he was involved in the deportation of Poles and Jews as an employee of the Łódź central office for immigrants . From 1941 Seidl was employed by the Marburg application inspection office.

In October 1941 SS- Obersturmführer Seidl was commissioned by the RSHA with the construction of the Theresienstadt concentration camp . From November 1941 to July 1943 he was a concentration camp commandant and as such was responsible for the mistreatment and murder of thousands of people. In 1942 Seidl was promoted to SS- Hauptsturmführer . After he had left Theresienstadt, Seidl acted from July 6, 1943 as head of the Gestapo in the so-called "residence camp" of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and was responsible in particular for the Jews interned there from allied and neutral states.

From there he was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp in preparation for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. In March 1944 he came to Budapest with the Eichmann Command and was then employed at various locations in Hungary with the "capture of Jews" and the confiscation of their property ( Hungary Action ), so he monitored the deportation of around 40,000 previously " ghetted "Jews from Nagyvárad and the surrounding area. From the summer of 1944 to April 1945, Seidl, as deputy head of the SS Special Operations Command, was in control of the forced labor camps for Hungarian Jews set up in Vienna and Lower Austria .

After the war, Seidl went into hiding in Vienna, lived under a false name and was arrested on July 30, 1945. His extradition to the Czechoslovak authorities was refused; From September 26 to October 3, 1946, he was tried in the People's Court in Vienna. Seidl, who initially refused to testify and then to obey orders called, was sentenced to death , and on February 4, 1947 executed .

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  1. ↑ a b c G. Anderl: Seidl Siegfried . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 126 f.
  2. ↑ Seidl, Dr. Siegfried at www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  3. ↑ Tomas Federovic: The Theresienstadt camp commander Siegfried Seidl. In: Theresienstädter Studies and Documents 2003, Sefer-Verlag Prague 2003, pp. 162ff.
  4. ^ Béla Zsolt : Nine suitcases. Translated from the Hungarian by Angelika Máté, with an afterward by Ferenc Kőszeg. dtv , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-13013-X . P. 281ff
  5. ^ Bernhard Blank (Association of the Strasshof work group): The last days of the Second World War in Strasshof on the northern railway and its transit camp for foreign forced laborers
personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concentration camp commander in Theresienstadt
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulln
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1947
Place of death Vienna