Julius Ludolf

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Julius Ludolf (born March 26, 1893 in Hamburg ; † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg am Lech ) was SS-Obersturmführer , member of the Waffen-SS and commander of various sub-camps of Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria.

Mauthausen

Julius Ludolf served in the Mauthausen concentration camp from January 1940 - May 1945. During this period he acted as camp commandant of the Mauthausen subcamps in the Loibl concentration camp on both sides of the Loibl Pass until August 1943, then succeeded Karl Schöpperle in Großraming and finally as a commander from May 1944 of the Melk sub-camp.

After 1945

After the end of the war, Julius Ludolf and sixty other members of the camp staff were tried in the main Mauthausen trial (see also: Dachau trials ) before a US military court . In addition to the conditions in those subcamps that were under his responsibility, Ludolf was charged with personally beating and / or killing Polish and Russian prisoners on various occasions between October 1943 and May 1944, and in October 1944 “hosing down” sixteen hospitalized Czech and Slovak prisoners and to have ordered the execution of an escaped and recaptured Russian prisoner in July 1944.

Questioned as a witness on his own behalf, Ludolf testified that he had never killed a prisoner, at most had given blows in order to maintain camp discipline. Camp inmates who had fled would not have been executed at his instigation. The US court in Dachau found the defendant guilty on May 13, 1946 and sentenced him to death . After his wife's petition for clemency was rejected, Julius Ludolf was hanged on May 28, 1947 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Updated edition, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .

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SURNAME Ludolf, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer, member of the Waffen-SS and commander of various sub-camps of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Landsberg am Lech