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German SS officer, Holocaust perpetrator (1909?1987)
Eugen Steimle
(8 December 1909 ? 6 October 1987) was a German
SS
commander in the
Sicherheitsdienst
(SD) during the
Nazi era
. He commanded
Sonderkommando
7a and
Einsatzkommando
4a of the
Einsatzgruppen
, both of which were responsible for mass killings in the Soviet Union. Steimle was found guilty in 1947 in the
Einsatzgruppen Trial
and sentenced to death in 1948. His sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison.
SS career
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Steimle was the son of a
pastor
and came from a strict pietistic family and studied history, German and French at the
University of Tubingen
and
University of Berlin
. In May 1935, he passed his teaching exams. He joined the
Nazi Party
in 1932 and the
National Socialist German Students' League
(NSDStB), where he devoted himself to teaching
Volksdeutsche
students of the
Sudetenland
. He joined the
SS
(no. 272,575) as well in 1932, and then joined the
SD
in 1935 at the instigation of NSDStB chief
Gustav Adolf Scheel
.
[1]
In September 1936, Steimle directed the SD office in Stuttgart.
[2]
First, he headed the SD subsection Wurttemberg, and from 1939 until 1943, the SD-Leitabschnitt Stuttgart.
[3]
From 7 September to 10 December 1941, he succeeded
Walter Blume
as the commanding officer of
Sonderkommando
7a
in
Einsatzgruppe
B
, which was led by
Arthur Nebe
. Under Steimle's command, his unit murdered 500 Jews within two months. From August 1942 to January 1943, he replaced Erwin Weinmann as leader of
Einsatzkommando
4a in
Einsatzgruppe
C
, which was led by
Otto Rasch
.
[4]
After returning to Germany, he became head of Group VI B (German-Italian sphere of influence in Europe, Africa and the Middle East) in the
RSHA
. In 1944, he was promoted to
SS-
Standartenfuhrer
.
Trial and conviction
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Steimle was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He was found guilty in 1947 in the
Einsatzgruppen Trial
and sentenced to death in 1948. His sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison based upon recommendations of the "
Peck Panel
". He was released from
Landsberg Prison
in June 1954 and then taught German and history in
Wilhelmsdorf, Baden-Wurttemberg
. He retired in 1975.
[5]
Eugen Steimle died on 6 October 1987.
References
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- ^
Christian Ingrao
Croire et detruire : les intellectuels dans la machine de guerre SS
ed. Fayard 2010 p. 133
ISBN
978-2-286-06980-3
- ^
Christian Ingrao op.cit. p. 366
- ^
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europaischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933?1945
(collection of sources), Vol. 3:
Deutsches Reich und Protektorat September 1939 ? September 1941
(ed. Andrea Low), Munchen 2012,
ISBN
978-3-486-58524-7
, p. 80
- ^
Christian Ingrao op. cit. p. 367
- ^
Ernst Klee:
Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich
, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 599
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