Adam Ankenbrand
Adam Ankenbrand (* 10. November 1887 in Bamberg ; † 19th November 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German soldier in the first world war, sergeant in the Wehrmacht, SS Sergeant and member of the crew of the concentration camp Gusen-Mauthausen and the Concentration Camp Buchenwald and its satellite camp in Schlieben.
The unskilled worker was called up for military service in World War I in 1914, where he was wounded twice and suffered typhus.
On February 9, 1942, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in June 1944, against his will, he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp for the Waffen SS. There he worked as a guard. Then he was briefly a member of the security team in Buchenwald concentration camp and, most recently, in its subcamp in Schlieben. He also took part in the evacuation of the Schlieben subcamp to Theresienstadt .
After the end of the war, Ankenbrand was brought to trial in one of the Dachau trials (General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany 471013) and accused of having committed war crimes and Nazi crimes against inmates. The victims were Polish and Hungarian Jews . The defendant was accused of having shot escaping prisoners when an ammunition factory exploded. He was also accused of having shot six prisoners who had left a train to eat grass while they were evacuating the Buchenwald concentration camp to Theresienstadt.
Ankenbrand was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death . The sentence was carried out on November 19, 1948 by hanging in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .
Web links
- Review and Recommendations (pdf, 1.1 MB, English) at www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
- Documents on the Buchenwald Trial to Adam Ankenbrand
- Court data on Adam Ankenbrand
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ankenbrand, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Unterscharführer and concentration camp guard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1948 |
| Place of death | Landsberg am Lech |