Sandberger, Martin, Dr. (SS)

Date of birth:: August 17th, 1911 (Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany)
Date of death:: November 30th, 2010 (Stuttgart, Germany)
Service number:: SS-nr.: 272.495 // NSDAP-nr.: 774.980
Nationality:: German

Biography

German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a Holocaust perpetrator. He commanded Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A, as well as the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Estonia. Sandberger perpetrated mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states. He was also responsible for the arrest of Jews in Italy, and their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. Sandberger was the second-highest official of the Einsatzgruppe A to be tried and convicted.

Promotions:
11.05.1935: entered the SS
30.01.1936: SS-Untersturmführer
13.09.1936: SS-Obersturmführer
20.04.1937: SS-Hauptsturmführer - Regierungsrat
09.11.1938: SS-Sturmbannführer
09.11.1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer
30.01.1945: SS-Standartenführer

Career:
10.1939-06.1941: appointed Leiter der Einwanderungszentrale - Chef der Sicherheitspolizei
01.12.1941-01.08.1943: appointed chief of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A
03.12.1941-09.1943: appointed commander of the Security Police and SD for Estonia
10.1943: appointed Gestapo chief for the Italian city of Verona
27.01.1944: appointed head of the Department A in the RSHA Amt. VI - Ausland-SD, the foreign intelligence service
25.05.1945: surrendered to HQ US 42 Div in Kitzbühel, Austria
15.06.1945: transferred to 307 Det CIC at HQ US 7 Army
08.07.1945: transferred to USFET (US Forces European Theater) Interrogation Center and then to Camp 020 - British Interrogation Centre - probably located at Diest, Belgium
09.1947: sentenced to death by hanging
1951: sentence commuted to life imprisonment
09.01.1958: released from Landsberg prison