Eduard Next

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Eduard Weiter (born July 18, 1889 in Eschwege , † May 2, 1945 in Itter , Tyrol ) was the last regular camp commandant of the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Eduard Weiter was born the son of a craftsman and was initially a bookseller. From 1912 to 1920 he was employed as paymaster in the German Army and then as chief paymaster in the Bavarian administrative police . Next was married and had two children.

From October 1936 he worked as an administrative officer with the SS (SS No. 276.877) and in 1937 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,958,951). Since 1941, Weiter held the rank of Obersturmbannführer . Heinrich Himmler appointed him commandant of the Dachau concentration camp on October 1, 1943 . Furthermore, the daily work was largely left to his protective custody camp leader Michael Redwitz .

On April 5, 1945 he received the order to murder the resistance fighter Georg Elser from Heinrich Müller . When the advance of the US Army towards Dachau was announced in April 1945 , the SS team of the Dachau garrison was already showing signs of disintegration. Further himself withdrew on April 26, 1945 and shot himself at the beginning of May 1945 in the Dachau satellite camp at Itter Castle near Kitzbühel .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Tom Segev : The Soldiers of Evil. On the history of the concentration camp commanders . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-18826-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945, Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH, licensed edition, Augsburg, 2008, p. 665
  2. ↑ Dachau concentration camp 1933 to 1945. Text u. Photo documents for the exhibition, with CD . Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87490-750-3 , p. 151 . In contrast to Klee, the date of death here is May 6, 1945
personal data
SURNAME Go on, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp commandant from Dachau
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Itter (Tyrol)