Edmund Zdrojewski
Edmund Zdrojewski (born August 24, 1915 in Thorn , † October 30, 1948 in Krakow ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and worked in various concentration camps . After the Second World War , he was sentenced to death and hanged.
Life
Zdrojewski began his camp service in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Upper Austria and from 1943 worked as deputy camp leader in Plaszow concentration camp near Kraków. In November 1944 he replaced SS-Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Wagner as camp leader of the subcamp Riederloh near Kaufbeuren , which was assigned to the Dachau concentration camp . From February 1945 he was camp manager of the Kottern-Weidach subcamp near Kempten until it was liberated by the American army .
The process
In post-war Poland, 16 members of the SS from the Plaszow concentration camp and six from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were indicted in one of several trials . The Kraków District Court sentenced the deputy camp leaders of the Plaszow concentration camp, Edmund Zdrojewski (responsible for Jewish prisoners) and Lorenz Landstorfer (responsible for Polish prisoners), as well as Ferdinand Glaser, to death by hanging on 23 January 1948 for war crimes. The remaining defendants received prison terms ranging from one to fifteen years. One defendant was acquitted. The three death sentences were carried out on October 30, 1948.
reception
In his book on Amon Leopold Göth , the commandant and butcher of Plaszow , Johannes Sachslehner reckons Edmund Zdrojewski to be the hard core of Göth's killers . He is said to have feared Göth and at the same time to have been a slave to him.
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel , Angelika Königseder: The place of terror: History of the National Socialist concentration camps . CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , Edit Raim: Kapitel Kottern , pp. 376–378 (Kottern), 377 (Zdrojewski in Kottern), 471 (Riederloh), 472 (execution) ( books.google.de ).
- Johannes Sachslehner: Death is a master from Vienna: Life and deeds of Amon Leopold Göth . styria, 2008, ISBN 978-3-222-13233-9 , pp. 101, 110 and 140 ( books.google.de ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder: The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps.
- ↑ Johannes Sachslehner: Death is a master from Vienna: Life and deeds of Amon Leopold Göth.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zdrojewski, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Hauptscharführer and concentration camp leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1948 |
| Place of death | Krakow |