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Heinrich Otto Seetzen, called Heinz Seetzen (22 June 1906 in Rüstringen, Duchy of Oldenburg – 28 September 1945 in Blankenese) was a German jurist, SS-''Standartenführer'' and police lieutenant. Seetzen was a perpetrator of the Holocaust, responsible for the mass murder of civilians in Ukraine and in Belarus. ==Life== Seetzen was born in 1906 as the only child of a deli owner in Rüstringen, in what is today part of Wilhelmshaven. While a student he joined the ''Jungstahlhelm''. Seetzen studied jurisprudence at the University of Marburg and the University of Kiel. After his law examination he worked, helping out in various law firms. Heinz Seetzen was married to Ellen Knickrem. On 1 May 1933, he joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party membership number 2,732,725) and the SA. On 1 February 1935, he became a member of the SS (membership number 267,231). After an unsuccessful bid for the post of mayor in Eutin, the unemployed Seetzen took a job as a temporary worker in the Eutin government, as an assistant to SA-''Brigadeführer'' Heinrich Böhmcker. In 1935, he joined the Gestapo. Seetzen was promoted to Chief of the SiPo and SD in Aachen (1935-1938), Vienna, Stettin and Hamburg (January 1940 to July 1941, then absent until August 1942). As of August 1942, he was Chief of the SiPo and SD in Kassel, and then in spring 1943 in Breslau. In 1944, he was commander of the SiPo in Prague.〔Linde Apel, Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media, in cooperation with the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (eds.): ''In den Tod geschickt - Die Deportationen von Juden, Roma und Sinti aus Hamburg, 1940 bis 1945'', Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009 - DVD of the exhibition, ''Die Gestapo'', p. 8〕 After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Seetzen was commander of ''Sonderkommando'' 10a, which followed Army Group South and was responsible for mass killings in the south of the Soviet Union. Austrian police officer Robert Barth, an accomplice in the mass murder, said about Seetzen: "A particularly brutal ''Kommandoführer'' (). He is said to have boasted that his ''Kommando'' would shoot the most Jews. I was also told that, at his command, once the ammunition for the shootings of Jews ran out, the Jews were cast alive into a well with a depth of approximately ."〔Report of Robert Barth of 8 October 1943 (Nuremberg document NO-3663) cited in: Stokes, ''Seetzen'', p. 199〕 From 28 April to August 1944, he served as commander of ''Einsatzgruppe'' B, which perpetrated mass murder in Belarus. This unit was responsible for the deaths of more than 134,000 people in Minsk and Smolensk. After his promotion to SS-''Standartenführer'' and police colonel, he was made Commander of the SiPo and SD in Belarus in April 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heinrich Seetzen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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