Willi Dusenschön

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Willi Dusenschön (born March 1, 1909 in Hamburg ; † unknown) was deployed as an SS leader guarding several concentration camps and later as the battalion commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" .

Life

Dusenschön joined the NSDAP ( membership number 75.582) and the SA in 1928 , switched to the SS in 1931 and, after a period of unemployment, became a full-time SS leader in Altona, which at that time did not yet belong to Hamburg.

On September 4, 1933, at the age of 24, Dusenschön was formally installed as the leader of the guards at the newly established Fuhlsbüttel ( Kola-Fu ) concentration camp and became a horror for the political prisoners. Standing for hours, hitting and kicking, mocking and threatening were part of everyday life there. At night, individual victims in the cells were beaten to unconsciousness with whips, paddocks and chair legs. Dusenschön participated in these attacks.

Several inmates died after severe abuse, and some committed suicide. The Hamburg Gauleiter, Karl Kaufmann , covered up the attacks and prevented preliminary investigations by illegally ordering the cremation of the dead and bypassing a legally required autopsy.

It was only when a doctor filed a complaint in the hospital of the remand prison in March 1934 that the public prosecutor's office felt compelled to investigate. Kaufmann illegally struck down the proceedings in October 1934, thereby giving his internal party opponents a target for attack. Dusenschön had already pulled himself out of the line of fire and had himself transferred to the SS troops at the end of June 1934.

From summer 1935 to spring 1941 he was in the service of the SS-Totenkopfstandarte and was initially employed in the Esterwegen concentration camp , then from 1937 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1941 he switched to the Waffen SS. Most recently he was a battalion commander in the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" in France.

After the end of the war

Dusenschön fell into English captivity and was extradited to France. A military court sentenced him to life forced labor for war crimes on October 27, 1951, but Dusenschön was released in January 1956.

In the autumn of 1962 Dusenschön was charged with murder before the Hamburg district court . He was charged with brutal mistreatment of the then 39-year-old Jewish social democrat Fritz Solmitz , who, as the editor of the Lübecker Volksbote , had made himself hated by the National Socialists. Solmitz had died or been driven to suicide as a result of the mistreatment in the Kola-Fu . His exact notes, which were hidden in a pocket watch, were available to the court as evidence.

Dusenschön got away with it without penalty. There was no evidence of a murder. Other offenses were statute-barred.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ All data on "Life" from: Werner Johe: Neuengamme. On the history of the concentration camp in Hamburg. Hamburg 1986 (published by the LZ for Political Education), p. 11f.
  2. ↑ Henning Timpke: The KL Fuhlsbüttel. In: Martin Broszat (ed.): Studies on the history of the concentration camps. Stuttgart 1970, p. 19f, note 31.
  3. ↑ DIE ZEIT, 1962 No. 42: The suicide was a "breakdown"
  4. ^ Christian Juergens, Fritz Solmitz. Local politician, journalist, resistance fighter and victims of Nazi persecution from Lübeck, Lübeck 1996, p. 71ff.
  5. ↑ records reproduced at Johe and Timpke.
  6. ↑ Statute of limitations according to circular 2001 / according to other representations due to "lack of evidence" Braunbuch ( Memento of March 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) and Timpke, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME It's beautiful, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century