Erich Isselhorst was a member of the Schutzstaffel member before and during World War II.
17 Facts About Erich Isselhorst
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Between 1942 and 1943, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Isselhorst was an Einsatzkommando leader, tasked with the murdering of Jews in what is Belarus and the Baltic States.
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Erich Isselhorst was sentenced to death by both a British and French military court and executed in France in 1948 for ordering the execution of captured British SAS members and French civilians in 1944.
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Erich Georg Heinrich Isselhorst was born in Saint-Avold, Lorraine, in 1906, which was then part of the German Empire but is part of France.
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Erich Isselhorst was educated in Dortmund, Recklinghausen and Dusseldorf, where he graduated in 1925.
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Erich Isselhorst was employed in a rubber factory before studying law from 1927 to 1930 in Cologne and Munich.
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Erich Isselhorst received his doctoral degree in law in 1931, once more returned to Dusseldorf, and joined the Nazi Party in August 1932.
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Erich Isselhorst joined the Sturmabteilung, in May 1933, and the SS in October 1934.
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Erich Isselhorst was admitted to the Sicherheitsdienst in July 1937 and permanently employed in the Gestapo in Berlin from December 1935, forward.
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From December 1939 to November 1942, Erich Isselhorst served as the head of the Gestapo in Munich.
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From January to October 1942, Erich Isselhorst was transferred to the Reichskommissariat Ostland in occupied Belarus, where he headed a department of the Sicherheitspolizei.
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Erich Isselhorst returned to Germany in October 1943 and his old role in Munich before being transferred to Strasbourg in December, where he was appointed as the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD of Alsace.
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Erich Isselhorst ordered the execution of the captured British SAS members, as well as a number of French civilians, three French priests and four US airmen.
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In January 1945 Erich Isselhorst was transferred once more, now to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin, where he remained until April.
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Erich Isselhorst was arrested by US forces on 12 May 1945 in southern Bavaria.
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Erich Isselhorst was sentenced to death by a British military court in June 1946 for the murder of British POWs, but handed over to the French.
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Erich Isselhorst was sentenced to death once more in May 1947, now by a French military tribunal, and executed in Strasbourg on 23 February 1948.