Bruno Brodniewicz
Bruno Brodniewicz , also spelled Brodniewitsch (* July 22, 1895 in Posen ; † April 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German prisoner functionary and inmate with the number 1 and first camp elder in Auschwitz .
Life
Brodniewicz was transferred to a concentration camp in the summer of 1934 at the latest and was temporarily in the Lichtenburg concentration camp . Brodniewicz was one of the first 30 prisoners who were admitted to the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp on May 20, 1940 as so-called professional criminals accompanied by the report leader Gerhard Palitzsch from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He had the prisoner number 1 and was known in the camp as "the Black Death" ( Czarna śmierć ). Brodniewicz was considered brutal and merciless and is said to have been responsible for the deaths of many fellow prisoners. He was the first camp elder of the main camp of Auschwitz and remained in this position until 1942. Brodniewicz had illegally hidden gold and other valuables in his room oven, which the camp SS had found after a tip from inmate Otto Küsel (inmate number 2) . Brodniewicz then came to the bunker at the end of December 1942 or beginning of January 1943 and was replaced as camp elder. Afterwards he was camp elder in the gypsy camp Auschwitz , from June 1943 in the subcamp of Auschwitz Neu-Dachs , from April 1944 in the subcamp Eintrachthütte and from September 1944 in the subcamp Bismarckhütte.
After the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Brodniewicz was first transferred to the Woffleben satellite camp of the Mittelbau camp complex , where he also held the position of camp elder. He was most recently imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where, after the liberation of the camp in April 1945, he was probably lynched by fellow inmates with other inmates because of his crimes .
literature
- Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz . Univ. of North Carolina Press, April 26, 2004
- Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz . Frankfurt am Main 1980
- Reni Rieger: Emil Bednarek - prisoner functionary in Auschwitz . Grin Verlag 2008
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 .
- Till Bastian: Auschwitz and the 'Auschwitz Lie', mass murder and falsification of history. CH Beck 1997, ISBN 3-406-43155-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Till Bastian: Auschwitz and the 'Auschwitz Lie' , p. 33
- ^ Hans Günther Adler: Auschwitz; Europ. Verlag-Anst., 1962; P. 170
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 6/1979: Nobody can get out of here , accessed on October 25, 2012
- ↑ Herbert Diercks : Excluded. "Asocials" and criminals "in the National Socialist camp system, Edition Temmen, 2009, p. 102
- ↑ The Place of Terror Volume 5, p. 287
- ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz ; Frankfurt am Main, 1980; P. 181
- ↑ Information from: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Vol. 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2008, p. 185, p. 287.
- ↑ Sven Langhammer: The police preventive detention in Prussia from 1933 to 1937 using the example of the state concentration camp Lichtenburg in the province of Saxony , in: circular of the state-owned memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, issue 1, 2006 - special issue: New research on the concentration camp system on the Area of today's state of Saxony-Anhalt, p. 33 uf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brodniewicz, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brodniewitsch, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prisoner functionary and inmate in Auschwitz concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1945 |
| Place of death | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |