Erich Roth

Erich Roth (born 25 May 1910 – executed in 1947 in Yugoslavia) was a deputy Gruppenleiter of the Gestapo in the Reich Security Main Office and war criminal during World War II.

Roth studied law at the University of Jena and University of Göttingen and worked as an assessor for the Gestapo in Berlin starting in February 1938. After the war began, he worked in the occupation administration in the General Government in Poland starting in October 1939. Later he took over the office groups IV B1 and IV B2 (church affairs) in the newly formed Reich Security Main Office.

In February 1943, Roth was head of the Gestapo office in Dortmund. In late 1944, it was proposed that Roth should be a special representative to the Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood) in Oslo, Norway. The RSHA declined the offer, as Roth could not be "released from his current position without endangering the security police affairs under any circumstances with respect to the current overall situation in the West."

In 1947, Roth was extradited from the French occupation forces to Yugoslavia. He was sentenced to death and executed.

Bibliography

• Michael Wildt. Generation des Unbedingten. Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930-90875-1