Anton Kaindl (concentration camp commandant)

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Anton Kaindl (born July 14, 1902 in Munich , † August 31, 1948 in Vorkuta ) was a German SS leader and the last camp commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Kaindl completed after the elementary school training as a clerk and then worked in the company where he received training as accountants . At the end of May 1920, Kaindl signed up as a professional soldier in the Reichswehr . There he embarked on the career of an administrative officer and was most recently employed as a paymaster . On May 1, 1932, his term of service ended and Kaindl left the army with the rank of administrative sergeant major . Until the end of August 1932 he was employed in the Stadtsparkasse Donauwörth and then in the Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement .

After the takeover of the Nazi regime Kaindl from early October 1933 was administrative leader in the "Chef training system" of the SA and moved to July 1, 1935 to the SS (SS no. 241248), where he was managing leader in the Administrative Office SS. Kaindl had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 ( membership number 4,390,500).

After the beginning of the Second World War, Kaindl was "Head of Troop Administration in the SS-Totenkopf-Division " from November 1939 and from September 17, 1941 took over the administration department in the inspection of the concentration camps (ICL). Even after March 1942, when the IKL was subordinated to the reorganized SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ( SS-WVHA ) as Amt D IV , Kaindl remained in this position. Until August 31, 1942, he headed Office D IV of Office Group IV in the SS-WVHA, which was responsible, among other things, for ordering concentration camp prisoners' clothing for the concentration camps .

From September 1, 1942 until the evacuation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on April 22, 1945, he was its seventh and last commandant . During the last days of the war, Kaindl fled to Flensburg via the so-called Rattenlinie Nord .

After the war, he fell into Allied captivity and was during the Nuremberg trials heard three times as a witness in June / July 1946th Then he was extradited to the Soviet occupation forces . On October 23, 1947, the so-called Sachsenhausen trial was held in Berlin-Pankow under the chairmanship of a Soviet military tribunal against him and 15 other defendants. Kaindl admitted his guilt in this process, but claimed that he had acted under an emergency . After eight days of the trial, Kaindl and twelve other co-defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment on November 1, 1947 . He was initially imprisoned in the central Soviet remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and four weeks later he was sent to the gulag in Vorkuta near the Polar Sea to do forced labor in a coal mine. Kaindl died in this labor camp on August 31, 1948.

Kaindl's SS ranks
date rank
July 1, 1935 SS-Untersturmführer
April 20, 1936 SS-Obersturmführer
January 30, 1938 SS-Sturmbannführer
January 30, 1939 SS-Obersturmbannführer
November 9, 1943 SS standard leader

literature

  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination. The economic empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .
  • Karin Orth : The system of the National Socialist concentration camps. Pendo Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-85842-450-1 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Johannes Tuchel : Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. (= Writings of the Federal Archives, Volume 39). H. Boldt, 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document 745b-D (Exhibit US-812) Affidavit by Anton Kaindl, recorded on March 19, 1946 in the Civilian Internment Camp No5.
  2. ↑ Wassilij Stepanowitsch Christoforov: The private photo album of the first camp commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Karl Otto Koch. In: Günter Morsch (Ed.): From the Sachsenburg to Sachsenhausen - pictures from the photo album of a concentration camp commandant. Metropol Verlag, 2007, p. 46.
  3. ↑ a b c d Johannes Tuchel: Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. 1991, pp. 377f.
  4. ↑ Bärbel Schmidt: History and symbolism of the striped concentration camp inmate clothing. Dissertation, Oldenburg 2000, p. 100, footnote 209 (PDF)
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 295.
  6. ↑ Stephan Link: "Rattenlinie Nord". War criminals in Flensburg and the surrounding area in May 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Hrsg.): Mai '45. End of the war in Flensburg. Flensburg 2015, p. 22.
  7. ^ Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes trials Interrogations 1946-1949. (PDF; 186 kB), Publication Number: M-1019, 1977.
  8. ^ On the Sachsenhausen process - excerpt from information on political education , issue 259
personal data
SURNAME Kaindl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and last commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1948
Place of death Vorkuta