The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (48 page)

With regard to the persons mentioned by you beyond this, the following trials have come to light here:

Josef Gerurn

Trial ib Js 1862/57 of the public prosecutor's office Munich I (basis of this trial unknown: the proceedings were suspended as per decision of io December 1958);

Trial i Js 6665/52 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office, because of false imprisonment leading to the death of the Jewish lawyer Dr Adler from Wurzburg (the proceedings were suspended as per decision of 25 July 19 5 3;

Trial I Js 151/48 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office, because of the arrest of the writer Nebuschka (the proceedings were suspended as per decision of 23 January 1950):

Trial 1 Js 55/49 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office, among other things because of extorting testimony from political prisoners. In these proceedings charges were brought against Gerum by the criminal division of the Wurzburg superior court (KLs 44/56 of the Wurzburg superior court). Gerum was exonerated in the verdict of 22 October 1956;

Trial I Js 404/52 of the public prosecutor's office Munich I (the basis of the trial unknown; the proceedings were suspended at some point not known here).

Ernst Grarnowski

Trial I Js 33/70 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office, because of mass shootings carried out by members of the Task Force I/3 of the Commander of the Security Police Lublin in the period from September to December 1939 (proceedings were suspended as per decision of 15 July 1970);

Trial i a IS 275/70 of the Schweinfurt public prosecutor's office, because of selecting so-called intolerable Russian prisoners of war in the officers' camp at Hammelburg (proceedings were suspended as per decision of 27 November 1970);

Trial 1 Js 34/70 of the Wiirzburg public prosecutor's office against Ernst Gramowski and Oswald Gundelach, because of participation in the deportations of the Jews in the area of the Gestapo post Wiirzburg during the years 1941 to 1943 (proceedings were suspended as per decision of 18 September 1970):

Trial I i IS 24/70 of the Nuremberg-Furth public prosecutor's office against Karl Eibl and Gramowski, because of the killing of a Polish foreign worker on 8 July 1942 by members of the Gestapo main branch Nuremberg and the Gestapo post Wiirzburg (proceedings against Karl Eibl were suspended as per decision of 19 September 1974; proceedings against Ernst Gramowski were dropped upon his death on i i January 1973):

Trial 7 Js 233/62 of the Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office, because of being an accessory to murder (more on the accusation is not known here: the proceedings were suspended as per decision of 15 February 1974);

Trial 3c IS I I1o-18/50 of the Nuremberg-Furth public prosecutor's office against Ernst Gramowski and eight others, because of being an accessory to murder (selection of Soviet prisoners of war; the proceedings were temporarily suspended as per decision of 9 June 1950 because of unknown whereabouts).

Oswald Gundelach

Trial 1 Js 34/70 of the WUrzburg public prosecutor's office: see above (as with Ernst Gramowski):

In the verdict of the US Military court in Landsberg on 3 April 1947, Oswald Gundelach was sentenced to life imprisonment, and on 14 March 1953 was released to Versbach (the basis of the conviction in unknown).

Balthasar Lutz

The [justice] authorities in Dortmund brought proceedings 45 Js 3/61 against Lutz and eighteen others. Basis of the charge was the mass shooting of at least 7,000 Jews in the period from March to September 1942 by former members of the Commando of the Security Police Minsk, outer branch Wilejka [Vileyka]. The proceedings with respect to Lutz were suspended.

Besides that, the [justice] authorities in Dortmund brought proceedings 45 IS 16/73 against Lutz and others for the killing of between 20,000 and 30,000 Jews in the area of Weisruthenien [Belorussia], where measures for the 'final solution of the Jewish question' were carried out in the years 1941 to 1944 by former members of the Main Outer Post Wilejka of the Commander of the Security Police and of the SD in Minsk, as well as by members of several gendarme posts and of a gendarme expedition. In regard to Lutz, the proceedings were stopped because of his death. Hans Schilling

Trial 1 Js 55/49 of the Wiirzburg public prosecutor's office was commenced against him and others for, among other things, extorting testimony. This proceeding was suspended.

Georg Vogel

Trial I Js 5 5/49 of the Wirzburg public prosecutor's office was commenced against him and others for, among other things, extorting testimony. In these proceedings the criminal division of the Wurzburg superior court brought charges against Georg Vogel and Franz Wittmann (KLs 46/50 of the superior court Wurzburg). In the verdict of the superior court Wurzburg of 12 May 1951 Vogel was exonerated. The verdict for Franz Wittmann was a gaol sentence of r year and 3 months.

Franz Wittmann

Trial I Js 55/49 (KLs 46/50 of the Wurzburg superior court); see above (with Georg Vogel).

Dr Otto Hellmuth

Trial I Js 151/48 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office, because of the arrest of the writer Nebuschka (proceedings suspended as per decision of 2 3 January 1950);

Trial Js 2711/50 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office' because of breach of the public peace (proceedings suspended):

Trial i Js 586/62 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office because of Nazi violence (proceedings suspended);

Trial I Js 127/48 of the Wurzburg public prosecutor's office because of serious breach of the public peace (proceedings suspended).

Dr Karl Wicklmayr

Dr Wicklmayr was sentenced to one year in gaol (Ks 11/5o superior court Wurzburg) according to the verdict of the appeal court at the superior court Wurzburg on 17 May 1952. In the verdict of the superior court Munich II of 3 July 1951 he was sentenced to 6 years in gaol for killing five prisoners in the period from March to May 1933 in the Dachau concentration camp (12 Is 1649/48 StA Munich II, 12 Ks 5/51 LG Munich II).

Besides that, proceeding II Js loo/60 of the public prosecutor's office Landshut was brought against Dr Wicklmayr (the basis of the trial unknown), but was suspended.

No criminal proceedings have been found against Theo Albin Memmel.

With friendly greetings,

Biemuller

(County Court Judge)

LIST OF ARCHIVES CONSULTED

Unpublished materials were consulted in the following archives. Only the most important file-groups are specifically mentioned.

I. Archiv der sozialen Demokratie (Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung), Bonn

2. Badisches Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe (BGLK)

3. Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Abt. I, Allgemeines Staatsarchiv, Munich (Bay HStA)

4. Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, AN. 2, Geheimes Staatsarchiv, Munich (Bay HStA)

Bayerische Politische Polizei

Government Presidents' and Police Reports

Polizeidirektion Augsburg

Polizeidirektion Munchen

5. Berlin Document Centre (BDC)

6. Bundesarchiv Koblenz (BAK)