Arthur Conrad

Arthur Albin Conrad (born June 26, 1910 in Deuben , † September 17, 1948 in Hameln ) worked in the command headquarters of the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Arthur Conrad, a typesetter by profession, was a member of the SS since 1933 and of the NSDAP from 1937 . From September 1939 Conrad belonged to the Waffen SS . In 1942 he was transferred to Ravensbrück from Warsaw together with Heinrich Schäfer from the substitute battalion of the SS Totenkopf Division. From March 1942 to April 1945 he worked in the command headquarters of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

After the end of the Second World War , Conrad had to answer for his crimes committed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp before a British military tribunal in the fifth of the seven Ravensbrück trials . In addition to shooting prisoners, he was charged with participating in a death march in April 1945. He was sentenced to death on July 15, 1948 for the shooting of weakened prisoners who could not keep up with the marching pace .

After confirming the judgment Arthur Conrad was born on September 17, 1948 by hanging executed.

literature

Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .

Footnotes

^ Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Diss. Humboldt University 2014, Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 , p. 414 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
↑ Simone Erpel: The British Ravensbrück Trials 1946-1948 , in: Simone Erpel (Hrsg.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Accompanying volume to the exhibition, series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Vol. 17, Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-19-2 , pp. 114–128, here 122; limited preview in Google Book search

personal data
SURNAME	Conrad, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conrad, Arthur Albin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German employee in the command headquarters of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Deuben
DATE OF DEATH	September 17, 1948
Place of death	Hamelin

[1] Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Diss. Humboldt University 2014, Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 , p. 414 f .; limited preview in Google Book search

[2] Simone Erpel: The British Ravensbrück Trials 1946-1948 , in: Simone Erpel (Hrsg.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Accompanying volume to the exhibition, series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Vol. 17, Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-19-2 , pp. 114–128, here 122; limited preview in Google Book search