Werner Fassel

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Werner Fassel

Werner Fassel (born June 16, 1910 in Siegen ; † January 6, 1992 in Schwelm ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and deputy head of the political department in Mauthausen concentration camp .

Life

Werner Fassel was the son of the magazine manager Albert Fassel and his wife Anna. After attending primary school , he completed a commercial apprenticeship. After completing his three-year apprenticeship, he worked as a commercial clerk for the Westfälische Eisen- und Blechwarenwerke and for a pharmaceutical company in Siegen. At the beginning of 1933 he was unemployed.

In April 1933 he became a member of the SS (SS No. 73,379). In the same year he joined the NSDAP (membership number 3.102.928). From April 1936 he was a member of the 3rd SS-Nachrichtensturmannes . From September 28, 1938, Fassel took part in the invasion of the Sudetenland as a member of the 3rd SS-Totenkopfstandard "Thuringia" . In May 1939 he was called up for a three-month training course as a radio operator for a Luftwaffe intelligence company in Langendiebach . In September 1939 he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was initially employed as a security guard. At the beginning of 1940 he was transferred to the commandant's office as a clerk . At the end of 1940 or beginning of 1941 he became office manager and thus deputy to the head of the political department, Karl Schulz . In this capacity he was personally involved in the abuse of inmates.

After the war, Fassel fled with other SS members and surrendered to the US troops in Steyr , from whom he was captured. On July 8, 1945, he was released from captivity. In 1945 he found a job as a warehouse worker in a grocery wholesaler in Schwelm. From 1949 he was able to work again as a commercial clerk. In 1951, Fassel was fined for fraud. In the course of the trial against his former superior Karl Schulz, he was heard as a witness. On August 29, 1967 he was arrested, but after two months from the detention dismissed. On July 24, 1970 he was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment by the LG Hagen for complicity in murder in 14 cases. In November 1972 the revision of the judgment was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice . He served his imprisonment in Attendorn correctional facility until October 4, 1978 , when he was released on parole .

literature

  • Gregor Holzinger (Ed.): The second row: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp . new academic press, Vienna, 2016 ISBN 978-3700319788
  • Christian Rabl : Mauthausen in court: Post-war trials in international comparison . new academic press, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3700321149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Bauer: Justice and Nazi Crimes: The sentences passed from May 9th, 1970 to January 1st, 1971, serial no. No. 732-747 . Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 9783598238253 , p. 485.
  2. ^ A b Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 85.
  3. ↑ Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 86.
  4. ^ Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrators biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 87.
  5. ^ Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 88.
  6. ↑ Christian Rabl: Mauthausen in front of the court: Post-war trials in international comparison , Vienna, 2019, p. 229.
  7. ↑ Christian Rabl: Mauthausen in front of the court: Post-war processes in international comparison , Vienna, 2019, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Fassel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1992
Place of death Schwelm