Karl Streibel

Karl Richard Joseph Streibel ( born October 11, 1903 in Neustadt in Upper Silesia, † 1986) was a German SS -Sturmbannführer and commandant of the Trawniki labor camp.

Life

Karl Streibel emigrated to the elementary school in 1922 to Brazil, where he worked as food sellers, married the daughter of the business owner, and got there just a daughter. In 1928 he returned with his family to Germany and took over in his home town of Neustadt in Upper Silesia, a small restaurant and but had to close down the inn with the world economic crisis in 1932. The SS staff report, however, was as an innkeeper in Neustadt completely ruined by boycott noted.

Karl Streibel occurred in 1930, the SA and the Nazi Party in 1931. From 1933 he was a member of the SS, he was promoted to SS lieutenant and in November 1937 the SS First Lieutenant in November 1936.

After the beginning of World War II he was employed from January 1940 in German-occupied Poland. In August 1940, he was ordered to Grenzbau to Belzec. Streibel was used on October 17, 1941, SS Group Leader Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhardt, succeeding Hermann Hoefle as camp commander in the forced labor camp Trawniki, where he also served as the commander of the Trawniki for the use of aid volunteers in the extermination camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor had. On February 2, 1942 Streibel signed the official identity card of John Demjanjuk. Streibel rose in 1942 to SS- Sturmbannführer on.

After the heavy air raids on Dresden in February 1945, he commanded a command of Trawnikimännern, which was responsible for burning the bodies.

After the end of World War II, he earned his living as a merchant in Hamburg. Against Karl Streibel and five other accused was tried on 5 December 1972 to June 3, 1976 the District Court of Hamburg for their participation in the labor camp Trawniki. All the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.