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Johann-Georg Richert
Johann-Georg Richert served as commander of the 286th Security Division and 35th Infantry Division. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in occupied Belarus through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Richert commanded the 286th Security Division during anti-partisan operations in occupied Belarus and later the 35th Infantry Division. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
- In the cited statement he admitted that three operations by his division caused about 900 civilian deaths; he also described a building with women and children burned at Perik and about 100 civilians shot after a partisan attack. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: stadtgeschichte.karlsruhe.de, cited passage)
- On 11 March 1944 he attended a meeting on the Ozarichi deportations; his 35th Division was assigned to build and guard one of the makeshift camps. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Richert’s responsibility rests on both his own documented statement and his command role in the Ozarichi operation; the sources do not support attributing every killing to his personal execution. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: stadtgeschichte.karlsruhe.de, cited passage; Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1942–1943 he commanded the 286th Security Division in occupied Belarus. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
- On 11 March 1944 he attended a meeting planning the deportation of civilians to Ozarichi. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: stadtgeschichte.karlsruhe.de, cited passage)
- He was sentenced to death in Minsk on 29 January 1946 and executed on 30 January. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
A Soviet military tribunal in Minsk sentenced him to death. The proceeding had serious procedural limitations and a propagandistic character, so the conduct account is also supported by independent archival scholarship on Ozarichi. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: stadtgeschichte.karlsruhe.de, cited passage; Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Not every death in his divisions’ operational area, nor any separate victim total, is attributed solely to Richert. No portrait was selected because rights to a specific file were not verified. (Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage; Source: stadtgeschichte.karlsruhe.de, cited passage; Source: ifz-muenchen.de, cited passage)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.