Else Ehrich

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Elsa Ehrich during the Majdanek Trial , 1946

Else Lieschen Frida Ehrich (* March 8, 1914 in Bredereiche , today Fürstenberg / Havel , † October 26, 1948 in Lublin ) was a German SS guard in various concentration camps .

Life

After finishing school, Else Ehrich worked in a butcher's shop. She volunteered for service as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and completed a qualifying course there from August 15, 1940. She initially worked there as a supervisor for Block 13 until she was promoted to report leader in the summer of 1942. In mid-October 1942 she was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp , where she soon became a supervisor . Ehrich took part in the selection for the gas chamber there. In the course of the evacuation of the Majdanek concentration camp, Ehrich ended up in the Plaszow concentration camp and, after its evacuation in September 1944, in the Neuengamme concentration camp , where she worked until April 1945.

After the war ended, Ehrich was arrested by members of the British army in Hamburg in May 1945 and initially imprisoned in the Neumünster internment camp. Soon afterwards she was taken to the PWE 29 war crimes camp in Dachau, where she shared a cell with Maria Mandl . Ehrich was extradited to Poland on November 22, 1946 and sentenced to death by hanging in the second Lublin Majdanek Trial on June 10, 1948 for her participation in selections in Majdanek and for mistreating prisoners in the Majdanek and Ravensbrück concentration camps . The revision of the judgment was rejected on September 22, 1948, despite a petition for clemency that she had brought in. Ehrich was executed in Lublin on October 26, 1948 .

literature

  • 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 .
  • Aleksander Lasik: SS guards before Polish courts . In: Simone Erpel (ed.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück , editors: Jeanette Toussaint, Johannes Schwartz and Lavern Wolfram (series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , vol. 17). Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 165
personal data
SURNAME Ehrich, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrich, Else Lieschen Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp guard in various concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bred area
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1948
Place of death Lublin