Bruno puddle

Bruno Pfütze (born July 9, 1912 in Nerchau ; † June 17/18, 1945 in Oslo ) was a German SS leader in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Life

Puddle, a painter by profession, joined the SS (membership number 81.491) in January 1933 and the NSDAP ( membership number 1.737.180) on April 1, 1933. From 1938 he was a member of the SS-Totenkopfverband and, after the beginning of the Second World War, from 1940 he was employed by the police associations in the Generalgouvernement .

At the end of 1940 Puddle was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp . At first he was deputy report leader in the main camp of Auschwitz . In this capacity he took part in the shootings of prisoners on the Black Wall . From the end of February to March 1943 he was camp leader in the " Auschwitz Gypsy Camp " of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . He then received training as an SS leader and was then returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Pfütze became camp leader in the Neu-Dachs SS labor camp and, from May 1944, company leader of the 4th and 5th SS guard companies of the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp , which were used to guard several subcamps . On November 9, 1944, Pfütze was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer .

After the "evacuation" of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, Pfütze was transferred to the Mysen concentration camp in Grini near Oslo in March 1945 as the commander of the SS guard battalion . Puddle there probably died in combat in 1945.

literature

• Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
• Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in cooperation with the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma , Heidelberg: Memorial book: The Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. Saur-Verlag, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-11162-2 .
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 238.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in cooperation with the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg: Memorial book: The Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. , Munich a. a. 1993, p. 1660
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 314
4. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: New badger (Jaworzno) . In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Vol. 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 285
5. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: New badger (Jaworzno) . In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Vol. 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 288