Gerhard Bögelein Papers

Period (1949-1956), 1991-1993
Total size   0.75 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany 1924, died in Hamburg 1993; served in the German army from 1941; deserted in 1943 and joined the Soviet Red Army; worked as an interpreter in the Soviet POW camp in Klaipeda, Lithuania; lived in the German Democratic Republic after his return from the Soviet Union; indicted for murder of the former Nazi judge Erich Kallmerten in the POW camp in Klaipeda he was prosecuted in vain by the West-German judicial authorities in the 1950s; in 1990, after the reunification of Germany, he was arrested however and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment in 1992; released early on account of his ill-health he died in 1993.

Content

Documents of the Prozessgruppe Kielhorn/Bögelein and of the Projektgruppe für die vergessenen Opfer des NS-Regimes, consisting of documents on the Bögelein case, including documents on the unsuccessful prosecution of Bögelein by the West-German judicial authorities after his return to the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1956, 1991-1993.