As civil servants of the Kriminalpolizei, which between January 1940 and September 1943 in the action T4 and the following action Reinhardt as directly a responsible person the nationally instructed mass murders obstructed himself on and accomplished Jews in the institutes for euthanasia in the German Reich and the extermination camps in the Generalgouvernement.

Life

Wirth was active as carpenters, until he began 1910 as a policeman in the city police station Heilbronn an official career. At the 1. World war participated it starting from 1914 and with the EK II and I was distinguished. 1917 it was used as military policeman.

Into the 1920er years worked Wirth as a building contractor and stepped 1922 for the first time and on 1 January 1931 again into the NSDAP (member NR. 420383), after this from 1923 to 1925 was forbidden. In the following it went to year again to the police and in the police station Stuttgart as Kriminalinspektor in the Mordkommission was employed.

1933 joined Wirth of the SA, 1937 the SD. 1938 he became director/conductor of the Kriminalkommissariats 5 in Stuttgart. In the following year it finally became with the member NR. 345464 taken up to the SS.

As Kriminaloberkommissar in police headquarters and he pushed T4 in October 1939 to the T4-Organisation and took its first activity in the institute for LV killing count-hits a corner as office manager in the context of the action up. At the beginning of of 1940 it led the gasifications of mentally handicapped humans in count-hits a corner, after it had participated before in the institute for LV killing Brandenburg at the beginning of January 1940 in a "“sample from 18 to 20 spirit-ill convicts. Here Dr. Brandt should be tested and decided on Veranlassung by Hitler's body physician whether the killing of the "“euthanasia"” - victim better with injections of Morphium Skopolamin or taken place by means of gasification with Carbon monoxide (CO) should. The decision fell for the CO variant, which should be accomplished exclusively by physicians.

After attitude of the killings in count-hit a corner Wirth as office manager into the institute for LV killing Hadamar one shifted. Subsequently, it fulfilled the same function in the institute for LV killing hard home starting from April 1940 with Linz.

In the middle of 1940 was appointed Wirth the inspector of all "“euthanasia"” - institutes in the largeGerman realm.

The first phase of the "“euthanasia"” was stopped on arrangement of Hitler from 24 August 1941. A small group of Wirth in the autumn was assigned 1941 the structure extermination camps of the Belzec and became at the same time its first commander. Here it developed structure and organization of the extermination camps, which should serve the goal of an industrial killing of the European Jews, how it then in the action Reinhardt (http://deathcamps.org/reinhard/index_d.html) with the killing of approx. 1.7 to 1.9 millions Jews happened. In Belzec, which took up its "“enterprise"” in March 1942, the victims with the exhaust gases of a diesel engine from a Russian tank were killed. A detailed description was delivered by the famous report of the SS-officer Kurt Gerstein, to which Wirth demonstrated on 18 August 1942 a mass from 700 to 800 humans.

On 1 August 1942 Wirth was appointed by the SS and police leader for the district Lublin, Odilo Globocnik, to the "“inspector of the SS-Sonderkommandos action pure hard"”. In this characteristic it replaced the commander extermination camps of the Treblinka, Dr. Irmfried Eberl, as the first that its tasks had not grown and did not replace it by the past commander extermination camps of the Sobibor, Franz Stangl. Wirth reorganized the camps of the action Reinhardt after its experiences made in Belzec, arranged the building of larger Gaskammern and began it admitted "“specialists"” from the action T4 in the camps for the optimization of the destruction machinery.

For the German equipment works in the district Lublin received Wirth in December 1942 the order to the building and for the line from new forced laborer camps.

After the rebellion in Treblinka on 2 August 1943 and toward end of the action pure hard Wirth, in the meantime to the was carried shifted together with Stangl and Globocnik after Triest. The latter was appointed on 13 September 1943 "„the higher SS and police leader Adriati coastal country "“. In rice factory in San Sabba a last was furnished to a former mark a KZ, which again by Erwin Lambert, which already the structural equipment "„of the euthanasia "“- was incumbent on institutes, with a Gaskammer and a crematorium was equipped.

In November 1943 Wirth supervised "„the action harvest celebration again in Lublin "“, the killing of approx. 42,000 Jewish forced laborers of the camps in the there district.

To 26. May 1944 is to have been murdered Wirth by Yugoslav partisans. Stangl saw it daliegen anyhow dead and expressed after the war the assumption that Wirth could have been killed by its own people. After the war it became common with Franz Reichleitner, the 2. Commander extermination camps of the Sobibor and Gottfried black, which deputy Wirths in the extermination camp Belzec, on which German soldier cemetery Costermano in the province Verona bestattet. Due to a refusal of the German Consul General Manfred stone radiator the people mourning day ago 1988 to render to the approx. 22,000 German soldiers buried there the honour if the Gebeine of the three SS-people mentioned from the cemetery are not removed, as compromise the names of the three killed SS-people from the "“honour book"” of the cemetery were erased and their ranks on the gravestones were removed.

Christian Wirth was the prototype of a SS-Sadisten, which was afraid by its own people almost likewise as by the prisoners. Of it witness its surnames, which were given to it by his untergebenen SS and Trawniki men: "„Christian the cruel one "“and "„dive bomber "“. It was characterised by absolute inexorability and went word by word over corpses.

Literature

• Aly (Hg.): Action T4 1939-1945. The "“euthanasia"” - center in the zoo route 4. Edition Hentrich, 2. extended edition, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3926175664
• Ernst Klee: "“Euthanasia"” in the LV state. The "“destruction lebensunwerten life"”. S. Fischer publishing house, Frankfurt/Main 1983, ISBN 3100393031.
• Euthanasia in the LV state: Count-hit a corner in the year 1940. National center for political education Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart January 2000 (on-line under http://www.lpb.bwue.de/publikat/euthana/euthana.htm)

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• National center for political education Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Biography with pictures of CH. Wirth (German)
• Biography and pictures of CH. Wirth (Italian)

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