Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich / E. Klee. - Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2003. - p. 78
SS-Hauptsturmführer (1942). Joined Eichmann's Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Vienna, and headed it since 1941. Responsible for registration and deportation of Austrian Jews. Helped in the deportation of Berlin Jews from the end of 1942 - Jan 1943. July 1943 - Aug 1944 Leiter (head) of Sonderkommando der Gestapo in France. Sentenced to death in absence, escaped to Damaskus/Syria.