Kurt Lischka

Kurt Lischka (Breslau, August 16th 1909 - Brühl, 1987). He was the chief of the Gestapo with the rank of S - Obersturmbannführer in Paris region starting from 1940.

Career under Third Reich

Lischka was the son of a bank clerk to Breslau. It is there that it passed its baccalaureat in 1927. Then he studied the right and political sciences with Berlin then occupied various stations in civil and regional courts. It entered the S on June 1st 1933. Starting from September 1st 1935 it worked for the Gestapo, initially like anybody of reference for the religious affairs. In 1938 it became, like Doctor in right, chief of office II B of the Gestapo in load of the religious confessions, of the Juif S, the Franc-maçon S, the emigrating S and of the Pacifiste S. During this only year, Lischka was promoted three times to become S - Sturmbannführer the September 11th 1938.
Son file praises its principal qualities: zeal, coolness, audacity. The October 28th it organizes the Rafle: 20000 Jews of Berlin and their deportation towards the Polish border where they are driven back in camps of transit, much die of hunger and cold. Reinhard Heydrich will say of its initiative: “The idea is clever”.
Les parents of Herschel Grynszpan will be convoy, which will be at the origin of its criminal act against Ernst vom Rath, a German Diplomate with Paris.

It is by occupying this station that it went responsible for the massive imprisonments of consecutive German Jews to the Nuit of crystal.

“Lischka is a remarkable agent” Reinhard Heydrich

Lischka temporarily directed the power station of Reich for the Jewish emigration which stripped the Jews of their goods before their emigration. From January to August 1940, he was chief of the Gestapo to the Maison EL-DE with Cologne. November 1st 1940 it arrives at Paris where he is the assistant of Helmut Knochen, at the command of the Sipo (police force of safety) - SD (Security service) at Paris and as a leader of office II (organization, administration) and a Co-person in charge of the deportation of at least: 73000 Jews towards Auschwitz-Birkenau via the Camp of Drancy. It is him even assisted Theodor Dannecker.

January 20th 1941: Meeting in Paris on the Jews dominated by Lischka:

“In order to solve the Jewish problem in France, we must apply same measurements that those misent in practice in Reich. For this purpose, I ask for creation in France of a Jewish central office which will have the following tasks:

Treatment of all the interesting questions of police force the Jews (census, constitution of files, monitoring)
economic Control, i.e. elimination of the Jews of the economic life, transfer of the Jewish companies to Aryan,
antijuive Propaganda among the French”

Applause nourished of its audience.

“I specify well that it is necessary to entrust to the French the responsibility to regulate these problems in order to avoid the inevitable reaction of the population against all that comes from the Germans. Also the German services will be restricted to make suggestions. ”.
Cette time it is ovation, it is true that Lischka is known as being a good speaker.

He will affirm that its starting work was to put at the step still institutitons them Jewish existing in Paris and to put them under the command of Large Paris.

“It will in the future belong to assist the Jews in all the fields. Presidents Juifs of various works decided on my initiative to organize a " Coordination committee of the charitable organizations of Paris and the department of Seine." All the organization would be placed under the monitoring of my services”.

Lischka made power station of the Gestapo in Paris a genuine instrument of terror that the Résistance paid at the price measurements of reprisals which involved the execution of: 29000 hostages on the whole.

the April 20th 1942 it is promoted Obersturmbannführer.
the May 14th 1942 it makes carry the yellow Star as of the 6 years age.
July 1942: Kurt Lischka organizes the raid of Vel of hiv.
Bilan makes with the military authorities: “On the whole: 12884 (on {{formatnum: 28000}} envisaged thanks to the files) people were arrétés. They will be sent to Drancy where they will be transferred towards the Reich in trains from thousand people " for travaux" .”

From January 15th to September 10th, Lischka was occupied in addition to association of the personnel of the office of the commander of the secret police and the security service of Paris.

Sa answer to a diplomat come to ask for to him the release of a friend Jew :

“I refuse any exception, without what the French will think that separately Führer him even, it does not have there a German anti-semite. Of course, you wish that one release such or such Jew because you think that it is a good man, that it is better than the others. And it is your absolute error there. The Jews are all the same ones!
Il does not have there a Jew better than another Jew. They are our enemies, your enemies too! ”

In September 1943, Lischka, suspected of corruption, is recalled to Berlin. A penal procedure is committed. It finishes the June 27th 1944 by a withdrawal of case.

The October 23rd 1943 it assumes the interim of Muller when celui_ci goes away As from November 1943, it was affected with service IV D 1 of the central Office of the safety of Reich (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), in load of the reprisals in the Protectorat of Bohemia-Moravie.

In 1944, Lischka belonged to the “Special subcommittee of the July 20th, 1944”. As of April 1945, its service is evacuated towards the the Schleswig-Holstein completely dissolved then the May 3rd 1945.

A method of Lischka to question a recalcitrant prisoner

“One must question a political prisoner while using of a very polished language. If he does not acknowledge, it is necessary to give him a meal only made up of one herring salted without a water drop. The next morning, to bring back the prisoner to the interrogation and to offer to him like breakfast that salted herring, and to ask him questions by drinking a cup one after the other. If it continues to deny, to return it in cell without him to give to drinking and with like only food of salted herring. Generally the method is effective at the end of a certain time. ”

After the Second world war

At the end of the war, Lischka initially lived with St Peter Ording, where he worked under a false identity as farm laborer.

the December 10th 1945, it was arrested by the British soldiers and was imprisoned in camps of English and French internment. Because of its activity in the Czechoslovakia occupied, he was extradited in 1947 with Prague.
April 1949 the police force Czech stops it and informs the authorities Frenchwoman but do not receive an answer.
In August 1950 it was returned in the Federal Republic of Germany. A decision of the court of Bielefeld discharged it.
the September 18th 1950, a French military tribunal however condemned it by contumacy to the forced labors to perpetuity. He learns it by reading his newspaper in his house from Cologne. Lischka worked in Cologne as manager of a store the large one of cereals, without being disturbed by justice. He knew the family of the owners since the pre-war period.
In 1971, it is found by Beate Klarsfeld with number 554 of the Bergisch-Gladbacher Straße with Cologne in the district of Holweide. Beate Klarsfeld then projected to kidnap it towards France: for that she was condemned like her husband Serge Klarsfeld to two months of prison.
In 1975 Lischka taken its retirement partly because of the demonstrations in front of the store the large one of cereals which employed it: the demonstrators used kingpins which endangered the other employees of the company.
In 1980, it was condemned to the Procès of Cologne at 10 years of prison, and was released in 1985.

Lischka finished its days near his wife in an old people's home to Brühl, and died two years later.

References

See also: Amorce=Pour to widen research to see:, Anti-semitism

Magazine Historia n°337 December 1974 by Philippe Aziz.
Magazine Historia Except Series n°26 1972 by Serge Klarsfeld.

External bonds

On K.Lischka and the lawsuit of Cologne
house EL-DE

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