Arnold Büscher

Arnold Büscher (born December 16, 1899 in Rehme (now Bad Oeynhausen ), † August 2, 1949 ) was a German concentration camp commandant . He was the head of the camp guard in the Plaszow concentration camp from September 1944 to around January 1945.

Arnold Büscher's parents ran a bakery in Rehme. After attending primary school, he began an apprenticeship as a businessman in Hamburg in 1915. From 1917 to 1919 he served in the army, after which he worked for an insurance company. In 1926 he married in Hamburg. In the 1920s he had several previous convictions (partly imprisoned) for theft, stolen goods, fraud and forgery of documents.

Büscher had been a member of the SS and the NSDAP since 1931 (membership number 556.757). In March 1934 he became SS-Untersturmführer and in May 1934 adjutant in the 28th SS-Standarte. The following year he resigned from active SS service; in his personal file he was classified as “not suitable for further promotion”. He then worked for Volksfürsorge life insurance.

After the outbreak of World War II , he served in the concentration camps Flossenbürg , Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald from September 1939 . In September 1941 he was promoted to Obersturmführer. In 1942 he served in the Mauthausen concentration camp and from 1942 in the Neuengamme concentration camp , where he temporarily led the SS-Totenkopfsturmbann. In April 1944 he became the head of the protective custody camp in the Plaszow concentration camp , where he succeeded camp commandant Amon Göth as Hauptsturmführer after he was arrested on September 13, 1944. In November 1944 he became camp leader of the Wilhelmshaven satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, after which he served in the Ohrdruf camp.

He was sentenced to death on January 23, 1948 for his actions in the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland. On August 2, 1949, he was executed by hanging .

literature

Stefan Hördler, Christoph Kreutzmüller: A concentration camp commandant from Rehme - Arnold Büscher (1899-1949). In: Contributions to the history of the cities of Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen. Volume 22. Bielefeld 2013, pp. 127-133.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Benz : The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 272 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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personal data
SURNAME	Büscher, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German concentration camp commander in Plaszow concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH	August 2, 1949
Place of death	Poland

[1] Wolfgang Benz : The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 272 ( limited preview in Google Book search).