Josef Schegg (1.10.1881 Bergheim near Dillingen – unknown)

After completing his military service in 1901, the farmer’s son and trained carpenter became a professional soldier in the Bavarian Army. In the First World War, in which he last held the rank of Sergeant-Major Lieutenant, he earned several decorations. After the end of the war, he went to the Munich Police and in 1922 joined the Kripo. From around 1930, he worked at the ‘Gypsy Police Department’ at the Kripo, and in 1938, with the rank of Senior Criminal Inspector, took on the leadership of the Munich Kripo department responsible for monitoring and discriminating against the Sinti and Roma that had been called ‘Office for Gypsy Affairs’ (‘Dienststelle für Zigeunerfragen’) since 1936. When its nationwide tasks were transferred to the Reich Criminal Investigation Department in Berlin with the creation of the ‘Reich Headquarters for the Fight Against the Gypsy Nuisance’ (‘Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung des Zigeunerunwesens’) at the end of that same year, Schegg was relocated to the Reich capital for just under a year to organize the transfer of business there. Appointed as a Criminal Commissioner at the beginning of 1939, he resumed his duties in Munich in September of that same year. However, in April 1941, he suffered a stroke and was subsequently retired.

In 1947, a Munich tribunal classified him as a ‘follower’ because of his Nazi Party membership since 1937 and imposed a small monetary penalty on him. Schegg’s Kripo activity wasn’t discussed at all throughout the entire, very brief tribunal proceedings.