Waldemar Eißfeld

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Waldemar Wilhelm Eißfeld (born December 27, 1908 in Leipzig , † April 11, 1982 in Peine ) was a German SS member, a criminal employee of the Gestapo and head of the Thuringia Central Jewish Department .

Life

After completing his school education, he learned the profession of financial clerk and became a bank clerk in Ronneburg . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the SS. In 1939, Eißfeld was required to do emergency duty as a detective at the Weimar State Police Station . From 1942 he worked as a driver in Department III (Defense) of the State Police (Stapo). Then he moved up to the clerk in the so-called Judenreferat , which was moved to Erfurt in 1942 .

The headquarters of the regional Gestapo was the center to which the transports of Jews from the surrounding cities and communities were brought together, in order to then send them to the extermination camps with the transport of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Eissfeld often worked as a personal transport guide. Several of the victims, mostly relatives of the victims, characterized Eißfeld as a brutal officer filled with hatred of Jews who carried out his interrogations as a practice of torture . In addition to insults and humiliations, he has beaten his victims and knocked out teeth.

Before the arrival of the US troops , Eißfeld settled in what would later become the American occupation zone , where he was arrested and interned in various camps. On September 22, 1947, the judicial chamber of the Darmstadt internment camp sentenced the former Gestapo commissioner to ten years in prison and a number of secondary sentences , as he was strongly suspected of having committed crimes against humanity . Eißfeld was then taken to a German court.

On October 25, 1954, the Darmstadt jury acquitted the Gestapo member Waldemar Eißfeld (together with Heinrich Lorenz) as accused of having been significantly involved in the mass deportations of Jewish citizens during the National Socialist dictatorship, due to a lack of evidence. Further proceedings for deprivation of liberty and assault in office dragged on until 1961. He was sentenced to imprisonment. He did not have to appear because his pre- trial detention was credited to him and the remaining sentence was suspended.

So far nothing has been known about his further life.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register, registry office Peine, No. 241
  2. ^ Andreas Theo Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia. History. Structure. Personnel and fields of activity . Dissertation to obtain the academic degree doctor philosophiae, not published, Jena 2005, p. 156.
  3. ↑ Peter Franz , Udo Wohlfeld: Jewish families in Apolda . Weimar 2008, p. 283.
  4. ^ Waldemar ice field (Wilhelm). Tenhumberg family, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ See Schneider 2005, p. 352.
personal data
SURNAME Eißfeld, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eißfeld, Waldemar Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer of the Gestapo
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1982
Place of death Torment