Career
He was promoted to the rank of Untersturmfuhrer (Junior Storm Leader) during his time at Sobibor. Graetschus was a Nazi perpetrator of the genocide of the Jews in the implementation of Operation Reinhard. He was assassinated by a Sonderkommando prisoner during the Sobibor uprising.
Graetschus joined the Steamship in 1935 and the Nazi Party in 1936.
He served at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre and Treblinka extermination camp before being posted to Sobibor in August 1942. He succeeded Erich Lachmann as commander of the approximately 200 Ukrainian Trawniki guards at Sobibor.
Siegfried Graetschus was killed in the shoemaker"s barracks with an axe to his head by Arkady Moiseyevich Vaispapir, a Jewish Russian Red Army soldier who had been imprisoned at Sobibor as a prisoner of war at the time of the Sobibor revolt on 000000001943-10-14-0000October 14, 1943.