Wilhelm Ebert (SS member)

Karl Albert Wilhelm Ebert (* 18th August 1904 in Wolmirstedt ; † 1. April 1995 in Dormagen ) was a German untersturmführer , Gestapo -Beamter and member of the Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C .

Life

Wilhelm Ebert was the son of a machine worker. After attending primary school, he began training as a mechanic and worked in this profession until 1925. From 1925 he served in the security police of Saxony-Anhalt . In 1936 he was transferred to the Political Police . In the same year he joined the NSDAP .

From January 1940 to June 1941 he was employed by the Gestapo Brno to fight "resistance groups". Then he was assigned to Sonderkommando 4b in Bad Schmiedeberg . In Kirovograd he directed shootings and also killed prisoners himself. From August 23 to September 5, 1941, the Kommando murdered 519 prisoners, including 435 Jews. At Poltava , on the orders of his commanding officer Fritz Braune, he directed the deportation of around 600 patients to a psychiatric institution, who were then shot under his direction. On his return to Dessau he attended a Sipo dog handler course . He was then transferred to Kiev , where he headed an office of the German criminal police by early 1943 at the latest . Then he returned to the Gestapo office in Dessau. According to his own statement, he reported to the Wehrmacht towards the end of the war .

On May 7, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the United States and Britain, from which he was released in June 1945. In Waltrop he worked in agriculture. In 1952 he applied to an office of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Hamburg . On July 1, 1955, he was employed by the district police in Recklinghausen without giving any information about his involvement in war crimes. For this he was arrested on March 20, 1963 after his involvement was discovered. He attempted suicide that same night . The Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced him to five years in prison on January 12, 1973 for complicity in the murder of at least 603 people. The Federal Court of Justice upheld the judgment on April 1, 1976.

literature

Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 248–249
^ Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR . 2nd edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2011, ISBN 978-3525350188 , p. 322.

personal data
SURNAME	Ebert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS Untersturmführer, Gestapo officer and member of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolmirstedt
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1995
Place of death	Dormagen

[Ullrich-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 248–249

[2] Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR . 2nd edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2011, ISBN 978-3525350188 , p. 322.