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Theo Saevecke
Theo Saevecke served as Commander of the German Security Police and SD in Milan.. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Milan and Lombardy 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
- He was born on 22 March 1911 in Hamburg and died on 16 December 2000 in Bad Rothenfelde. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The court found that he ordered and organized the public shooting of 15 San Vittore prisoners at Piazzale Loreto on 10 August 1944. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Turin Military Tribunal sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment on 9 June 1999; he was not extradited to Italy and died on 16 December 2000. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes the Piazzale Loreto order to Saevecke on the basis of the Italian judgment without assigning him every crime of the occupation apparatus in Lombardy. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1943 and 1944 he headed the German Security Police and SD in Milan. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The 1999 judgment became final before his death in 2000, but the sentence was not enforced. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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
The Turin Military Tribunal sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment on 9 June 1999; he was not extradited to Italy and died on 16 December 2000. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No portrait with licensing safe for publication was verified; the profile remains unillustrated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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