The trial of the Gestapo/SD from Reims took place in Metz between 22
and 25 November 1949.
The charges:
- murder
- conspiracy to murder
- assault and battery
The verdicts:
- Joseph Weissensee, born 11 June 1905 in Schallfeld, Unterfranken,
Bavaria; sentenced to death. Executed on 5 February 1951
- Anton Stolreiter, born 15 June 1905 in Munich, Bavaria; sentenced
to death. Executed on 5 February 1951
- Bernhard Ruchti born 12 February 1898 in Theiningsen, North Rhine-Westphalia;
sentenced to twenty years hard labour. Released 23 June 1954
- Bruno Balkow born 30 June 1913; sentenced to death in absentia
(Source: Ministére de la Défense,
Division des Affaires Pénales Militaires, Dépôt
Central d'Archives de la Justice Militaire)
|
A newspaper clipping from the Reims Municipal Archives:
METZ 5 Février 1951
Ce matin à 7h 30 au terrain militaire de Chambières à
Metz, deux members de S.D. de Reims ont été fusillés.
Il s’agit du Hauptscharführer Joseph Weissensee, 44 ans,
interprète, ancien professeur de français en Bavière,
et de l’Unterscharführer Stollreiter, 45 ans, chauffeur,
condamnés à mort le 23 Novembre 1949, par le tribunale
militaire de la 6ième région, pour complicité de
crimes de la guerre.
[At 7.30 this morning at the Chambières military base in Metz,
two members of the S.D. of Reims were shot - Hauptscharfuhrer Joseph
Weissensee (44), interpreter, a former teacher of French in Bavaria,
and Unterscharfuhrer Stollreiter (45), chauffeur. They were condemned
to death on November 23, 1949 by the military tribunal of the 6th region,
for complicity in war crimes]
|
