Otto Brenneis

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Otto Brenneis (born July 3, 1900 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † May 10, 1945 in Heide Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer (1941) and, as an administrative leader, head of site administration in several concentration camps .

Life

Brenneis was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,789,294) and SS (SS number 73,378). From 1933 Brenneis was probably part of the camp staff of the Dachau concentration camp . In 1938 at the latest, he moved to the Flossenbürg concentration camp as head of the site administration , where he was deployed until October 1943. He then also became the administrative manager of the site administration in the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia and from September 1944 to April 1945 in the concentration camp central structure . Brenneis' administrative duties included the procurement and distribution of food, clothing and necessities in the concentration camps. Brenneis was therefore jointly responsible for the inhumane living conditions of the concentration camp inmates in the camps.

In the course of the evacuation of the Mittelbau concentration camp, Brenneis is said to have arrived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 10, 1945 . Even before the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was taken over by the British army, Brenneis is said to have defected and died on May 10, 1945 in fighting in Heide as division commander of SS Panzer Division 11 (IVa) "Hermann von Salza".

At the request of the prosecution representatives, Brenneis and three other accused were removed from the list of suspects for the Nordhausen main trial . The Neustadt District Court declared Brenneis dead in 1959.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 475.
  2. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of Death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, pp. 652, 296.
  3. ↑ Hauptsturmführer Otto Brenneis on www.bergenbelsen.co.uk
  4. ↑ Helmut Kramer, Karsten Uhl, Jens-Christian Wagner (eds.): Forced labor under National Socialism and the role of the judiciary - perpetrators, post-war trials and the dispute about compensation payments , Nordhausen 2007, p. 154 (pdf) .
personal data
SURNAME Brenneis, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative leaders in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945