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Kurt Lischka
SS Lieutenant Colonel & Gestapo chief assigned to Paris

Kurt Lischka

Kurt Lischka
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Intro SS Lieutenant Colonel & Gestapo chief assigned to Paris
A.K.A. Курт Лишка, Лишка
Was Jurist Military officer Soldier Lieutenant colonel Politician
From Germany
Field Law Military Politics
Gender male
Birth 16 August 1909, Wrocław, People's Republic of Poland
Death 16 May 1989, Brühl, Germany (aged 79 years)
Star sign Leo
Politics Nazi Party
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Kurt Werner Lischka (16 August 1909 in Breslau (now Wrocław) – 16 May 1989 in Brühl) was an SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police (SiPo) and Security Service (SD) in Paris during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Lischka was the son of a bank official. He studied law and political science in Breslau and Berlin. After obtaining his degree he worked in district courts and in the Provincial Court of Appeal in Breslau. Lischka joined the SS on 1 June 1933, reached the rank of SS Major in 1938 and then SS-Lieutenant Colonel on 20 April 1942. On 1 September 1935 Lischka joined the Gestapo and in January 1940 became head of the Gestapo in Cologne.

Lischka headed the operation, which resulted in the incarceration of over 30,000 German Jews immediately following the mass destruction of Jewish property in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. As SiPo-SD chief of Paris Lischka was responsible for the largest single mass deportation of Jews in Occupied France.

Lischka was imprisoned in France in 1945, then extradited to Czechoslovakia in 1947 for war crimes there, but released on 22 August 1950. He settled in West Germany. Though a Paris court sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment, Lischka lived out more than 25 years in freedom, working under his own name in the Federal Republic of Germany as, among other positions, a judge. As a result of the activities of Holocaust-survivor Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate Klarsfeld, Lischka was eventually arrested in Cologne. Lischka was sentenced to a ten-year prison term on 2 February 1980 and, following his early release on health grounds, died in a nursing home on 16 May 1989 in Brühl.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 08 Mar 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02912205
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16932153h
https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16932153h
https://d-nb.info/gnd/124790542
http://isni.org/isni/0000000014586998
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84076792
https://www.idref.fr/144280124
https://viaf.org/viaf/62490995
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/62490995
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