Lothar Beutel was a German pharmacist by profession and Schutzstaffel officer in World War II serving on behalf of the Sicherheitsdienst branch of the SS.
11 Facts About Lothar Beutel
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Lothar Beutel was involved in the Night of the Long Knives, the purge of the SA, leading a death squad in Saxony.
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From 1937 to 1939 Lothar Beutel commanded the Bavarian branch of the Gestapo.
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Lothar Beutel was drafted to the Waffen-SS on 28 August 1939, during the Nazi invasion of Poland, then the SS-Brigadefuhrer Beutel commanded Einsatzgruppe IV.
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Lothar Beutel was arrested on charges of embezzlement and for living with a Jewish woman and spent four weeks in Dachau concentration camp.
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Lothar Beutel was demoted in rank in October 1939 and lost his SS membership.
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Lothar Beutel subsequently served in a penal unit of the SS-Totenkopfdivision in France before returning to civilian life, working as a pharmacist again.
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Lothar Beutel was once more drafted into the Waffen-SS in 1944 and wounded and captured by Soviet forces in Hungary.
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Lothar Beutel spent the next ten years as a prisoner of war, before being released in October 1955.
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Lothar Beutel returned to his profession of pharmacist, now living in West Berlin.
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Lothar Beutel was arrested in May 1965, and released on bail in 1967.