Albert Fredrich Schwartz
Albert Fredrich Schwartz (born May 11, 1905 in Schwarzenau , ( West Prussia ); † July 5, 1984 in Ahrensbök ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and was employed as the head of the site administration of the Stutthof concentration camp and labor leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp .
Life
Schwartz, son of a landowner, graduated from the business school in Gdansk . From 1925 he was employed by the Stadtsparkasse Danzig. Schwartz later qualified further at the commercial college in Danzig and the Sparkassenfachschule in Hanover and completed his training as a savings bank inspector in 1938. Schwartz joined the NSDAP (membership number 228.771) and SA in 1930 . In 1931 he moved from the SA to the SS (membership number 6.532), where he worked as a treasurer for an SS standard.
After being drafted into the police reserve in Gdansk, Schwartz was responsible for the administration of the auxiliary prisoner camps in the catchment area of the Gdansk police chief from 1939 to 1942. At the end of 1941 Schwartz became a member of the Waffen SS and in 1942 he became an adjutant to the camp commandant in the Stutthof concentration camp .
From October 1942 to April 11, 1945, Schwartz was a labor leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp, replacing Philipp Grimm in this function . His tasks essentially comprised the selection of suitable prisoners for the Buchenwald sub-camps upon request and also to organize appropriate accommodation and equipment.
After the war ended, Schwartz was arrested and interned in the US prisoner of war camp in Bad Aibling together with Hans-Theodor Schmidt , Hans Merbach , Max Schobert , August Bender and Otto Barnewald , who were also part of the Buchenwald concentration camp .
As part of the Dachau trials , Schwartz was charged with 30 other suspects in the main Buchenwald trial. On August 14, 1947, Schwartz was sentenced to death by hanging on account of his position that was important for the organization of the camp for “helping and participating in the operations of the Buchenwald concentration camp” . The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Schwartz was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison on May 14, 1954 . Schwartz then held a leading position in industry and died in Ahrensbök in July 1984 after an inconspicuous life.
literature
- Buchenwald main trial: Deputy Judge Advocate's Office 7708 War Crimes Group European Command APO 407: (United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. - Case 000-50-9), November 1947 Original document in English (PDF file )
- Eugen Kogon : The SS state . The system of the German concentration camps ; Frechen: Komet, 2000; ISBN 3-89836-107-1 (= Munich: Heyne, 1995 31 ; ISBN 3-453-02978-X ; Reinbek near Hamburg: Kindler, 1974)
- Ernst Klee : The person lexicon for the Third Reich : Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89244-222-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Szwarcenowo, today part of Biskupiec .
- ↑ a b Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Göttingen 1999, p. 309
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwartz, Albert Fredrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German labor leader in Buchenwald concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1984 |
| Place of death | Ahrensbök |