Heinrich Otto Seetzen / Central Reich Security Office (person)

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Heinrich Otto Seetzen (mentioned: Heinz Seetzen) (* 22. June 1906 in Wilhelmshaven; " 28 September 1945, suicide), studied law at the Philipps university Marburg and at the Christian Albrechts university Kiel, was responsible as for the mass murder at civilians in the Ukraine and in white Russia.

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Life

Seetzen was born 1906 as an only child of a delicatessen store owner in preparation rings with Wilhelmshaven. Already as pupils it stepped the Jungstahlhelm, as a student into Marburg of the anti-Semitic Turnerschaft Philippina as a comrade in arms bei.1929 passed it its junior lawyer exam in Kiel.

Seetzen worked after the study of the jurisprudence temporarily in different law offices. At the 1. It joined May 1933 the NSDAP. On 1 February 1935 it became SS-member. After a futile application around the mayor place in Eutin the occupationless Seetzen took a place as a temporary worker with the Eutiner head of the provincial government, to the SA brigade leader an.1935 successfully applied it for admission with the Prussian Gestapo.

After its transport to the upper government advice, he was used successively as a boss of the state police and the SD into Aachen, Hamburg, Vienna, Stettin and Kassel. Subsequently, starting from spring 1943 he was an inspector of the state police and the security agency in Breslau.

Seetzen was after beginning of war against the Soviet Union commander of the special command 10a, which followed that the army group south and was responsible for mass murders in the south of the Soviet Union. An accomplice in the mass murder, the Austrian police officer Robert Barth said 1947 in Nuremberg about Seetzen:

Particularly brutal the command leader was called [...] Zeezen [sic] [...]. It is to have itself that its command would have shot most Jews. Also it was told that with its command, when once the ammunition proceeded with shooting from Jews, who had been thrown to Jews alive into a well by approximately 30 m depth.

From 28 April 1944 to August 1944 it was responsible as a commander of the group of employments of B for mass murders in white Russia. This murder unit was responsible in the area Minsk/Smolensk for the death of more than 134,000 humans.

After its transport to the and Colonel of the police he became in April 1944 KdS (commander of the state police) in Weissruthenien. From September 1939 until 9 November 1944 it was active in the Central Reich Security Office (RSHA).

Heinz Seetzen was married with inches break rem.

After 1945

After end of war Seetzen under the wrong name Michael Gollwitzer hid itself with an acquaintance.

This reported that Seetzen was "morally perfectly finished". It would have it told, "that it heavy debt on itself loaded [...] a criminal is and its life had incurred the loss. He [...] said openly that he with itself lead Cyankalium, over in the given instant, if one gets him, suicide to commit to be able."

After its arrest by the British military police in Blankenese, Seetzen committed suicide with a prussic acid cap on 28 September 1945.

It was not identified and was not bestattet as "Michael Gollwitzer". Therefore 1949 the Entnazifizierungskammer was concerned with Seetzen and gradated it, "if the concerning still alive is", into the group 3 "less-loaded" in.

Literature

Klaus Michael Mallmann/Gerhard Paul (Hg.): Careers of the force. National Socialist , Darmstadt: Scientific book company 2004 ISBN 3-534-16654-X
Lawrence D Stokes: From law student ton of group of employments COMM other: The of career OF A Gestapo more officer. Canadian journal OF History. April 2002. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200204/ai_n9027171/print.