Theodor Pillich
Theodor Pillich (born August 24, 1902 in Vienna ; † 1988 ) was a German war criminal .
Life
Pillich came from Austria and became a member of the NSDAP and the SA in 1926 . After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, he set up the technical emergency aid (TN) in Tyrol . At the beginning of the war he came to Warsaw as a deputy riot leader . In November 1939 he voluntarily participated in the development of hundreds of Jews in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, on the orders of the Higher SS and Police Leader Krüger . According to witness statements, Pillich took photos on site, verbally abused the Jewish victims and threatened to shoot those police officers who refused to carry out the executions.
Theodor Pillich was dismissed from the TN in 1940 because of considerable shortfalls in the cash register of his unit. Although he was finally able to clarify the whereabouts of most of the posts, despite tough attempts he never returned to his old position. From 1942 he was the camp manager of an IG Farben labor camp in Auschwitz . In the course of investigations by the public prosecutor into the mass shootings in Ostrów , Pillich was arrested on September 18, 1961 in Helmstedt . The Giessen Regional Court sentenced him to three years and three months in prison on March 26, 1962 for aiding and abetting murder .
literature
Markus Roth, Annalena Schmidt: Judenmord in Ostrów Mazowiecka, act and punishment , Berlin: Metropol Verlag , 2013, 141 p .; References: p. 39, footnotes 18–20, p. 46–48, p. 64, p. 87, p. 106
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Bauer : Justice and Nazi Crimes: Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966 , Amsterdam University Press , ISBN 978-9-06042-005-8 , p. 591.
- ↑ mass shooting . Article from the Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung from July 7, 2011
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| SURNAME | Pillich, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Deputy Head of the Technical Emergency Response in Warsaw |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1988 |