Ernst Stengelin

Ernst Stengelin (10 August 1911 – 14 October 1943) was a German SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) who served at Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps and was killed in the Sobibor uprising. Nothing is known about his personal life.

Ernst Stengelin
Born(1911-08-10)10 August 1911
Tuttlingen, Baden-Württemberg, German Empire
Died14 October 1943(1943-10-14) (aged 32)
Sobibor extermination camp, Lublin Voivodeship, German-occupied Poland
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branch Schutzstaffel
Rank Unterscharführer, SS (Corporal)
UnitSobibor

Stengelin served in the killing center at Grafeneck Castle in Grafeneck at Münsingen and the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre,[1] before he was reassigned to the "Aktion Reinhard" extermination camp Treblinka. Then he came to Sobibor shortly before the uprising of the Sobibor extermination camp.[2] He was employed in the camp and was killed by the camp inmates during the uprising. Franz Suchomel reported as the only witness of his death.[3]

Bibliography
  • Barbara Distel: Sobibor. S. 376 ff. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Diestel: Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. 8.Bd. Beck. München 2008. ISBN 3-406-57237-5
  • Jules Schelvis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. Unrast-Verlag. Hamburg/Münster 2003. ISBN 3-89771-814-6
  • Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 591.

References
  1. Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 591.
  2. Sobibor Interviews: Biographies of SS-men
  3. This article incorporates information from the corresponding article in the German Wikipedia
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