Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Greifelt | |
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War crimes Membership in a criminal organization | |
| Trial | RuSHA trial |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
SS career | |
| Allegiance |  Germany |
| Service/ |  Schutzstaffel |
| Years of service | 1933–1945 |
Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt (8 December 1896 – 6 February 1949) was a German
Nazi era. He was convicted at the RuSHA trial at Nuremberg
, sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in prison.
Biography
Greifelt was born in Berlin in 1896, the son of a
First World War.[1] After the war, he retired from the army with the rank of Oberleutnant.[2] Subsequently, he was a member of the Freikorps.[1] During the Weimar Republic, Greifelt worked as an economist at a Berlin joint-stock company until he was laid off in 1932 due to the difficult economic situation in Germany.[2]
After the SS-Hauptamt.[3]
After the beginning of the
RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood) in October 1939. He was instrumental in the "planning and implementation of population relocation in the context of Generalplan Ost".[3] In the SS, Greifelt rose quickly through the ranks, reaching Gruppenführer (major general) by 1941. He ultimately reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer
und General der Polizei on 30 January 1944.
In February 1942, whilst serving on
SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt before undergoing extensive psychological study. Those that were found to be of desirable racial stock were to be sent to German boarding schools and subsequently made available for adoption by the families of SS members, with their Polish origin to be concealed from any prospective parents.[4]
After
Lorraine and Luxembourg. He died while serving his sentence at the prison for war criminals in Landsberg.[5] Greifelt argued in his defence that he had the welfare of the people whom he expelled at heart and wanted to help them to find "the consolidation of their existence and thereby of their Germanism."[6] His claims were rejected however and he was sentenced under recently passed genocide legislation.[7]
Notes
- ^ a b Höhne (1998), p. 283.
- ^ a b Hein (2012), p. 75.
- ^ a b c Ebbinghaus & Roth (2011), p. 92.
- ^ Clay & Leapman (1995), pp. 94–6.
- ^ Klee (2007), p. 198.
- ^ Clay & Leapman (1995), p. 173.
- ^ Clay & Leapman (1995), p. 175.
References
- Clay, Catrine; Leapman, Michael (1995). Master Race: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany. Coronet Books.
In German
- Ebbinghaus, Angelika; Roth, Karl Heinz (2011) [2000]. "Kurzbiografien zum Ärzteprozess". In Dörner, Klaus (ed.). Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß 1946/47. Wortprotokolle, Anklage- und Verteidigungsmaterial, Quellen zum Umfeld (PDF). Munich: ISBN 978-3-11-096299-4.
- Hein, Bastian (2012). Elite für Volk und Führer? Die Allgemeine SS und ihre Mitglieder 1925-1945. Munich: Oldenbourg. ISBN 978-3110485172.
- ISBN 978-3893505494.
- ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5.
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