Bernhard Schmidt (SS member)

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Bernhard Schmidt (born April 18, 1890 in Pegnitz ; † September 6, 1960 in Bayerisch Eisenstein ) was the German camp commandant of the Lichtenburg and Sachsenburg concentration camps during the Nazi era .

Life

After graduating from elementary and secondary school, Schmidt completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and then went abroad to assemble. Between 1910 and 1912 Schmidt studied engineering at the Konstanz technical center and graduated as a civil engineer. From 1912 to the beginning of April 1914 he did his military service, where he achieved the rank of non-commissioned officer. Schmidt then worked as a civil engineering engineer at the Fürth municipal building authority. As a soldier, Schmidt took part in the First World War between 1914 and 1918 and was discharged from the army on December 16, 1918 after the end of the war. In August 1919 he married and took over his in-laws' inn in Bayerisch-Eisenstein. Later he led a resident defense. Schmidt joined the NSDAP as early as 1925 ( membership number 14.699) and the SS in 1930 (SS number 2.069) . In December 1932, Schmidt was active in the SS “for special use” at an SS standard.

From the end of June 1934 to the end of March 1935, Schmidt was the camp commandant in the Lichtenburg concentration camp . Schmidt then became camp commandant in Sachsenburg concentration camp and held this position until July 1937. Afterwards Schmidt was until June 1938 the protective custody camp in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camp . Because of his incompetence, Schmidt was dismissed from camp service by the concentration camp inspector Theodor Eicke . Schmidt then worked as a district group leader in the Reich Air Protection Association Weser / Elbe. His request to return to work with the Waffen SS was not granted on several occasions. Richard Glücks , for example, did not accept Schmidt's request to be used by Office Group D of the WVHA in April 1943.

Schmidt was not prosecuted after the end of the war.

Schmidt's SS ranks appointment
SS-Untersturmführer March 17, 1931
SS-Sturmbannführer October 2, 1931
SS-Obersturmbannführer November 9, 1931

literature

  • Stefan Hördler, Sigrid Jacobeit (eds.): Documentation and memorial site Lichtenburg concentration camp - conception of a new permanent exhibition for workshop buildings and bunkers. Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10038-2 .
  • Johannes Tuchel : Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. (= Writings of the Federal Archives, Volume 39). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johannes Tuchel: Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 , p. 390.
  2. ↑ Stefan Hördler, Sigrid Jacobeit (eds.): Documentation and memorial site Lichtenburg concentration camp . Berlin 2009, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Stefan Hördler, Sigrid Jacobeit (eds.): Documentation and memorial site Lichtenburg concentration camp . Berlin 2009, p. 32.
  4. ↑ Tuchel: Concentration Camp, p. 390. The ranks given by Tuchel have been changed to the designations in use at the time of appointment.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camp commandant in Lichtenburg and Sachsenburg concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pegnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1960
Place of death Bavarian Eisenstein