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Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Greifelt served as chief of staff of the RKFDV and administrator of expulsions and Germanisation. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Occupied Poland and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe 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
- Himmler appointed Greifelt chief of staff of the RKFDV in October 1939, and he directed the office's daily work through the end of the war.
- The RKFDV coordinated expulsions, settlement of ethnic Germans, racial selection and the abduction and Germanisation of children.
- The RuSHA Trial convicted Greifelt of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS and imposed life imprisonment.
Place in the chain of responsibility
Greifelt converted Himmler's population policy into directives and administrative programmes of displacement, selection and Germanisation. His central responsibility overlaps with regional expulsion offices, police, Lebensborn and camp authorities that implemented individual actions.
Key events and mechanisms
- the Zamość expulsions of 1942–1943 and separation of children from their families
- RKFDV programmes for settlement, forced Germanisation and population removal across occupied territories
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
Greifelt was the principal defendant in the RuSHA Trial. Sentenced to life imprisonment on 10 March 1948, he died at Landsberg Prison on 6 February 1949.
Limits of the evidence
The well-documented Zamość figures form only one part of the RKFDV programme, while broader totals are estimates. Responsibility for individual abductions, expulsions and deaths must also be assigned to the regional bodies that carried them out.
Sources
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