Wilhelm Schubert (SS member)

Wilhelm Karl Ferdinand Schubert (born February 8, 1917 in Magdeburg , † January 12, 2006 in Solingen ) was a German SS Oberscharführer and block leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

After finishing his school career, Schubert completed an apprenticeship as a decimal scale locksmith with his father, a master locksmith. From 1931 he belonged to the Hitler Youth (HJ) and in November 1933 became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). After completing his military service in 1934/1935, he retired from the Wehrmacht at the end of 1935 with the rank of private in the reserve. He then joined the SS death's head associations. In 1936 he was initially deployed at the Lichtenburg concentration camp until he graduated from the SS Unterführerschule at the Dachau concentration camp in 1937 . Schubert became a member of the NSDAP in May 1937 . Schubert was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in May 1938, where he first belonged to the political department there and then to the post censorship office. From August 1939 Schubert worked as a block leader in Sachsenhausen, where he was called Pistolen-Schubert because of his shooting enthusiasm . Schubert personally murdered 46 people. So he murdered Wilhelm Schuster on April 3, 1942 . At the morning roll call he insulted Schuster as a priest and hit him with his fists. When Schuster lay on the floor, Schubert kicked Schuster's face several times. Wilhelm Schuster died on the square.

From July 1942 Schubert was deployed in the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" in Yugoslavia. After the end of the war, Schubert was a US prisoner of war, from which he was able to escape. In August 1946 he arrived in Leipzig and was arrested there on December 2, 1946 after being recognized by a former Sachsenhausen prisoner. At the Sachsenhausen trial , he was charged with 15 other accused in a Soviet military court for the crimes committed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Schubert was found guilty on October 31, 1947 and sentenced to life imprisonment with compulsory forced labor. The convicts were detained in the Gulag's Vorkuta labor camp . On January 14, 1956, Schubert was released from Soviet custody and released as a so-called non - amnestee in the Federal Republic of Germany . Schubert was then arrested again and, together with Gustav Sorge , charged with concentration camp crimes before the Bonn Regional Court . The subject of the proceedings included u. a. in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the participation in the mass killing of around 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war in the barracks shot in the neck of the concentration camp and the completed and attempted killing of numerous concentration camp inmates. Schubert was personally charged with 46 murders. On February 6, 1959, Sorge and Schubert were each sentenced to life imprisonment and an additional 15 years in prison by LG Bonn. On January 31, 1986, he was released from custody. After his release from prison, Schubert lived in Solingen and died in 2006.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Klaus Drobisch , Günther Wieland : System of Nazi concentration camps. 1933-1939. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-000823-7 .
• Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147687-5 .
• Andrea Riedle: The members of the command staff in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Social structure, official channels and biographical studies (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Volume 31). Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86331-007-3 .
• LG Bonn, February 6, 1959 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XV, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . University Press, Amsterdam 1976, No. 473, pp. 399-659, subject of the proceedings: Completed and attempted killing of prisoners from the Esterwegen concentration camp. Participation in the mass killing of a total of around 10,000 Russian prisoners of war in the barracks shot in the neck of KL Sachsenhausen. Completed and attempted killing of a large number of prisoners from KL Sachsenhausen , jur.uva.nl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes . Tübingen 2002, p. 122
2. ^ Klaus Drobisch, Günther Wieland: System of the Nazi concentration camps. 1933-1939. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, p. 258
3. ↑ ^{a b} Eugeniusz Nowak: Scientists in turbulent times. Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2010, pp. 96–98.
4. ↑ Andreas Hilger , Ute Schmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Soviet military tribunals. The conviction of German civilians 1945–1955 . Volume 2. Writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism , Cologne 2003, p. 187
5. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 562.
6. ^ Proceedings against Wilhelm Schubert and Gustav Sorge ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on jur.uva.nl 
7. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606 , p. 548.
8. ^ Andreas Fritsche: Types of perpetrators. Biographies of members of the command staff in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In: Neues Deutschland , December 27, 2011