Edmund Bräuning

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Edmund Bräuning (born July 2, 1905 in Naumburg ; considered missing since spring 1945 ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and adjutant of the camp commandant in the Neuengamme , Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps .

Life

Edmund Bräuning, a trained businessman, was married twice and had at least six children. He joined the SS in December 1932 ( membership number 66,975) and in early April 1933 the NSDAP ( membership number 1,568,392). In November 1940 he became adjutant to the camp commandant in Neuengamme concentration camp. At the beginning of November 1941 he moved to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he also worked as an adjutant under Rudolf Höss until the beginning of July 1942. He also performed the duties of a court officer there. From July 1943 to the end of December 1944, Bräuning was the first protective custody camp leader and adjutant to camp commandant Fritz Suhren in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. There he is said to have entered into a love affair with the superintendent Dorothea Binz and was responsible, among other things, for the duty of factory workers to work as a concentration camp guard . From the beginning of January 1945 he took over the management of the Buchenwald sub-camp in Ohrdruf until the camp was liberated at the beginning of April 1945. There he was primarily responsible for the more than 3,000 prisoners who had died on the camp grounds and the more than 60 prisoners who were unable to march during the evacuation of the camp from the Camp crew were murdered.

Bräuning has been missing since the end of the war.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The person lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • 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. Epilogue, ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
  • 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 .
  • Insa Eschebach, Sigrid Jacobeit and Silke Wenk (eds.): Memory and gender. Interpretation patterns in representations of the National Socialist genocide . Campus Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3593370530

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002, p. 176f
  2. ↑ 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: The structure and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 184.
  3. ↑ Johannes Schwartz: A concentration camp guard's room for action. Dorothea Binz - head of the cell construction and supervisor. In: Simone Erpel (Hrsg.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück. Editing: Jeanette Toussaint, Johannes Schwartz and Lavern Wolfram (series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Volume 17), Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 63, 69
  4. ^ Short biography of Edmund Bräuning
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Brauning, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century