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Carltheo Zeitschel
Carltheo Zeitschel also Carl Theo, (13 March 1893 – 21 April 1945), was a German physician, diplomat, Nazi functionary and SS-Sturmbannfuhrer (major).
Instrumental in the Holocaust in France, Zeitschel served as adviser on Jewish affairs (Judenreferent) to the German Embassy in Paris and as such was one of the organisers of the deportations of Jews from occupied France during World War II. Condemned in absentia to forced labour in perpetuity by a French court in 1954, he was actually killed during the bombing of Berlin in 1945.
Born on 13 March 1893 Carltheo Zeitschel was the son of pharmacy owner, Franz Zeitschel, and his wife, Ella van Hees. From 1911, he studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and from 1914 to 1917, during World War I, served as an assistant doctor in the rear area military hospital of Freiburg. He graduated in 1918.
At the end of World War I, Zeitshcel was discharged from military service. From 1919 to 1920, he was a member of the Freikorps Reinhard in Berlin, working at the same time as medical assistant at Klinikum im Friedrichshain, the oldest hospital in Berlin. Later, as a full-fledged doctor, he served at various sanatoria in the Black Forest.[citation needed]
A staunch anti-Semite, Zeitschel joined the Nazi Party in 1923. For a decade (1925–35) he served as a naval surgeon. In 1935 he received a positions in Section II – Propaganda and Section VII – British India and the Far East in the Propaganda Ministry. He also served in the colonial policy department at the Nazi Party headquarters.
Towards the end of 1937 he moved to the Foreign Ministry (Auswärtiges Amt or AA), even before Hitler's reshuffle of the Government with the appointment of Joachim von Ribbentrop as foreign minister on 4 February 1938. There he served as legation councilor in the political department. For a brief period in June 1939, he was the German consul in the British colony of Nigeria.
He was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) holding the rank of Sturmbannführer (major) while in Paris (1940). According to Roland Ray, Zeitschel served in the military's Secret Field Police.
When the Germans invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, Zeitschel was ordered to Warsaw, where he participated in the looting of politically valuable documents and art treasures from diplomatic missions, as well neutral states. He was a member of the Sonderkommando Künsberg, the special unit controlled by the Foreign Office and in particular by the Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, which systematically pillaged cultural and art treasures and other items of political interest from the territories occupied by Germany. In 1940 Zeitschel followed the ‘’Sonderkommando Künsberg’’ in its move to the Western Front. In June, with Ribbentrop's authorization, Zeitschel was brought to the German Embassy in Paris by the ambassador Otto Abetz.
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Carltheo Zeitschel
Carltheo Zeitschel also Carl Theo, (13 March 1893 – 21 April 1945), was a German physician, diplomat, Nazi functionary and SS-Sturmbannfuhrer (major).
Instrumental in the Holocaust in France, Zeitschel served as adviser on Jewish affairs (Judenreferent) to the German Embassy in Paris and as such was one of the organisers of the deportations of Jews from occupied France during World War II. Condemned in absentia to forced labour in perpetuity by a French court in 1954, he was actually killed during the bombing of Berlin in 1945.
Born on 13 March 1893 Carltheo Zeitschel was the son of pharmacy owner, Franz Zeitschel, and his wife, Ella van Hees. From 1911, he studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and from 1914 to 1917, during World War I, served as an assistant doctor in the rear area military hospital of Freiburg. He graduated in 1918.
At the end of World War I, Zeitshcel was discharged from military service. From 1919 to 1920, he was a member of the Freikorps Reinhard in Berlin, working at the same time as medical assistant at Klinikum im Friedrichshain, the oldest hospital in Berlin. Later, as a full-fledged doctor, he served at various sanatoria in the Black Forest.[citation needed]
A staunch anti-Semite, Zeitschel joined the Nazi Party in 1923. For a decade (1925–35) he served as a naval surgeon. In 1935 he received a positions in Section II – Propaganda and Section VII – British India and the Far East in the Propaganda Ministry. He also served in the colonial policy department at the Nazi Party headquarters.
Towards the end of 1937 he moved to the Foreign Ministry (Auswärtiges Amt or AA), even before Hitler's reshuffle of the Government with the appointment of Joachim von Ribbentrop as foreign minister on 4 February 1938. There he served as legation councilor in the political department. For a brief period in June 1939, he was the German consul in the British colony of Nigeria.
He was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) holding the rank of Sturmbannführer (major) while in Paris (1940). According to Roland Ray, Zeitschel served in the military's Secret Field Police.
When the Germans invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, Zeitschel was ordered to Warsaw, where he participated in the looting of politically valuable documents and art treasures from diplomatic missions, as well neutral states. He was a member of the Sonderkommando Künsberg, the special unit controlled by the Foreign Office and in particular by the Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, which systematically pillaged cultural and art treasures and other items of political interest from the territories occupied by Germany. In 1940 Zeitschel followed the ‘’Sonderkommando Künsberg’’ in its move to the Western Front. In June, with Ribbentrop's authorization, Zeitschel was brought to the German Embassy in Paris by the ambassador Otto Abetz.