Tyummler, Johannes

Johannes Tyummler was born on August 23, 1906 in the family of the book publisher German Tyummler. He studied law and became a doctor of law.

In 1932 he joined the NSDAP (party ticket No. 1 425 547), and the next year - into the Assault squads (SA). In 1937 he became a member of the SS (No. 323 711). After the Nazis came to power, he served in the Düsseldorf Police Department. In 1939 he was appointed deputy head of the Gestapo in Dresden , and in January 1941 he became head of the Gestapo in this city.

In March 1941 he headed the Gestapo in Chemnitz. From July 3 to September 11, 1943 he led Einsatzkommand 16 as a part of Einsatzgruppe E in Croatia with a place of deployment in Knin ^[2] . In September 1943, he was appointed head of the Gestapo and commander of the Security Police and SD in Katowice. In this position, he headed the SS military courts in Upper Silesia with the districts of Katowice and Oppeln . These courts also sat in the 11th block main camp of Auschwitz .

After the advance of the Red Army and the retreat of the German troops in 1945, he was appointed commander of the Security Police and SD in Stuttgart .

After the war

At the end of the war he was captured by the French. In 1946 he was transferred to an internment camp in Ludwigsburg ^[3] . During denazification, he was classified as the “main culprit” and in 1948 was sentenced to two and a half years of labor camps, which were counted during internment. On appeal in 1949, the sentence was reduced to 180 days of correctional labor.

From October 1948 he worked at the Carl Zeiss Optical Plant in Oberkochen . On November 2, 1964, he witnessed the defense at the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt , where he spoke about the activities of the courts in the Auschwitz concentration camp ^[4] . Further investigations into him did not lead to indictment: in 1970, the Ellwangen Land Court rejected the opening of a trial against him, and in 1999, an investigation into the murder charges initiated by the head of the central land justice department to investigate Nazi crimes in Ludwigsburg ober - Attorney Kurt Schrimm , was terminated due to lack of evidence.

In the post-war era, Tyummler was a member of the Tutzing Protestant Academy . In 1996, he demanded that the city of Chemnitz return to him a collection of works of art that were in the museum ^[3] . At the end of World War II, works of art by Tyummler, along with museum works, were taken to the Ore Mountains . Nevertheless, the city refused to Tyummler, recalling his Nazi past.

Main

• Ernst Klee. Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich . Wer war was vor und nach 1945. - Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Peter Jochen Winters. Berichterstatter im Auschwitz-Prozess 1963/65 // NS-Gewaltherrschaft. Beiträge zur historischen Forschung und juristischen Aufarbeitung / Alfred Gottwaldt, Norbert Kampe, Peter Klein. - Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 2005 .-- ISBN 3-89468-278-7 .

Additional

• Hermann Langbein. Der Auschwitz-Prozeß. Eine Dokumentation. - Frankfurt am Main: Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995 .-- ISBN 3-7632-4400-X .
• Sybille Steinbacher. “... nichts weiter als Mord.” Der Gestapo-Chef von Auschwitz und die bundesdeutsche Nachkriegsjustiz // Ausbeutung, Vernichtung, Öffentlichkeit / Norbert Frei. - München, 2000. - S. 265–298. - ISBN 3-598-24033-3 .
• Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier. Die Geheime Staatspolizei in Württemberg und Hohenzollern. - Stuttgart, 2013 .-- ISBN 3-89657-138-9 .
• Wolfgang Proske. Täter - Helfer - Trittbrettfahrer. NS-Belastete von der Ostalb. - 2. Auflage. - Gerstettn: Kugelberg, 2016 .-- S. 221 ff. - ISBN 978-3-945893-05-0 .

• Johannes Thümmler (Polish) . dws-xip.pl . Date of treatment February 7, 2019.