Gottlieb Hering
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Bełżec , end of August 1942 — June 1943 |
Gottlieb Hering (2 June 1887 – 9 October 1945) was an
Early life
Hering was born and raised in Warmbronn, a district in the town of Leonberg. After finishing his schooling, Hering worked on a farm near his home. From 1907 to 1909, he served in the 20th (2nd Württemberg) Uhlans "King William I" regiment, and then voluntarily stayed on for another three years. Hering then joined the Heilbronn police in 1912. In 1914, Hering married and had one son.
During the
Police and SS career
Hering began his police career in 1919 as a detective (sergeant) in the criminal police (
Action T4
Beginning in late 1940, Hering held various functions within the
Operation Reinhard
After
After
SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain).[2][3] SS-Scharführer Heinrich Unverhau, who served at Bełżec, testified about him: "Hering and Wirth were definitely wicked people, and the whole staff of the camp was afraid of them.... I heard that Hering shot two Ukrainian guards who expressed their dissatisfaction with what was going on in Belzec."[4]
Rudolf Reder, one of only two survivors of Bełżec, wrote of Hering's role in the killing of Jews.[5]
He was a tall bully, broad shouldered, age around forty, with an expressionless face. He seemed to me as if he were a born bandit. Once, the gassing engine stopped working. When he was informed [about it], he arrived astride a horse, ordered the engine to be repaired and did not allow the people in the gas chambers to be removed. He let them strangle and die slowly for a few hours more. He yelled and shook with rage. In spite of the fact that he came only on rare occasions, the SS men feared him greatly. He lived alone, attended by Ukrainian orderly who served under him. This Ukrainian submitted to him the daily reports.[4]
Tadeusz Misiewicz, a Pole who lived in the village of
Once the major [sic], the commander of Belzec death camp, invented a new type of entertainment: he tied a Jew with a rope to his car; the Jew was forced to run behind the car and behind them ran the major's dog and bit the Jew. The major rode from the camp to the water pump, which was in Belzec on Tomaszowska Street, and back. What happened to this Jew I do not know. This event was witnessed by the people of Belzec.[4]
Later career and death
After the termination of
Bibliography
- Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt on Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0.
- Fritz Bauer Institut (Hrsg.): Arisierung im Nationalsozialismus – Jahrbuch 2000 zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust. Frankfurt on Main: Campus, 2000, ISBN 3-593-36494-8.
- Wedekind, Michael: Nationalsozialistische Besatzungs- und Annexionspolitik in Norditalien 1943 bis 1945: Die Operationszonen „Alpenvorland“ und „Adriatisches Küstenland“ (= Militärgeschichtliche Studien 38). Edited by ISBN 3-486-56650-4.
- ISBN 3-492-22700-7.
References
- ISBN 0-8078-2208-6
- ^ a b Gottlieb Hering, holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk
- ^ Yitzhak Arad (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 167
- ^ a b c Yitzhak Arad (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 187-188.
- ^ Rudolf Reder on Gottlieb Hering. Citation. Arad 1987, p. 188.
- ^ Yitzhak Arad (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 371-372
- ISBN 1-56852-133-2.
- ^ Annette Hinz-Wessels: Tiergartenstraße 4: Schaltzentrale der nationalsozialistischen »Euthanasie«-Morde, Ch. Links Verlag, 2015, p. 114 [1] (German)
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