Theodor Groever

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Theodor Gröver (born December 5, 1909 in Riesenbeck , † August 25, 1975 in Hörstel ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and convicted war criminal .

Life

Theodor Gröver was the son of a master carpenter . He attended grammar school up to subprima and then worked in his father's business before starting a bank apprenticeship at the Kreissparkasse in Ibbenbüren .

In his hometown he led the SA from 1933 and built up the local Hitler Youth . In 1935 he became paymaster in the Wehrmacht and in 1936 he reported to the SD in Berlin , where he was deployed in the SD main office . In June 1936 he became a member of the SS (SS no. 280.187). On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 4,583,133).

In 1939 he worked in the administration of the SD school in Bernau before he marched into Poland with Einsatzgruppe V. From August 1940 he was a detective commissioner of the Gestapo in Würzburg . In October 1941 he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C. In a leading position he was involved in the shootings of Jews. On the orders of Erhard Kroeger, he led the shooting of 800 patients in an institution for the mentally ill in Igrin. After leaving the task force, he was placed under the command of the security police and SD (KdS) in Kiev . From the summer of 1942 he headed the Uman branch .

Since he often attracted attention while on duty with a drunkenness , he was transferred back to Würzburg in October 1942. In April 1943, the SS and Police Court in Nuremberg sentenced him to eight months in prison for a physical offense committed while drunk, which he served in the SS penal camp in Danzig-Matzkau . In autumn 1944 he was drafted into the Waffen-SS as an SS storm man and in the spring of 1945 he was taken prisoner in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Because of his membership in the Waffen SS, the SD and the Gestapo, he was interned and taken to the Darmstadt internment camp on May 7, 1946 . He fled the camp on the night of April 7th and 8th, 1947. There he ran an ambivalent textile business. From 30 April 1962 to 15 December 1964 he was in custody . On August 7, 1963, he was sentenced to five years and six months in prison by LG Wuppertal for aiding and abetting the murder of 800 mentally ill people and ten Jews . The judgment was confirmed on December 13, 1967 after two revisions .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 202.
  2. ↑ a b c d Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, p. 249.
  3. ^ French L. MacLean: The Field Men: the SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units . Schiffer Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-7643-0754-1 , p. 63.
  4. ↑ a b Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, p. 250.
personal data
SURNAME Groever, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Untersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesenbeck
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1975
Place of death Hörstel