Third Belsen Trial Hauptsturmführer Ernst Julius Kurt/Curt Max Meyer

Date Of Birth : 17/05/1895
Place Of Birth : Hannover
Position Within Bergen-Belsen : Commander Guard Company
Comments :
Trial : Third Belsen Trial
Trial Location : Hamburg Curiohaus 14 -16 April 1948
   
Brief History

Conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1940

Autumn 1941 - February 1944 Office Comanding Landensschützenbatalion in Ukraine

Transferred to the reserve list after a stay in hospital for a heart condition

Arrived in Bergen-Belsen in July 1944

Left Bergen-Belsen 12 April 1945 and transferred to a Battle Group in Marsch, Schleswig-Holstein

17 May 1945 interned by the British and released by error 19 September 1947

11 February 1948 re arrested and detained in Hamburg Altona

16 April 1948 sentenced to Life imprisonment at 3rd Belsen Trial held at Hamburg.

04 May 1948 sentence confirmed

03 February 1950 sentenced reduced to 21 years

Released 24 December 1954.

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