Erhard Brauny

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Adhesive sheet photo of the defendant Erhard Richard Brauny from June 1947.

Erhard Richard Brauny (born October 17, 1913 in Glauchau , † June 16, 1950 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and used as a report and command leader in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .

Life

Brauny, a dyer by profession, became a member of the NSDAP and SS in 1932 . From September 1937, he was first deployed to the security team of the Buchenwald concentration camp . After six months of camp service in Dachau concentration camp , he was transferred to Mittelbau-Dora in September 1943 - at that time still a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp - where he worked as a report leader until November 1944. From November 20, 1944 to the beginning of April 1945, he was camp manager of the Mittelbauer satellite camp in Rottleberode . On April 4, 1945, he led an evacuation transport by train with around 400 prisoners from Rottleberode.

At Gardelegen , this group of prisoners met with concentration camp prisoners from an evacuation transport from the Hanover-Stöcken concentration camp. The transport train could not continue the journey by train. The accompanying SS guards, members of the Wehrmacht , the Volkssturm and other Nazi organizations forced the prisoners to continue on foot in the direction of Gardelegen. On the orders of the NDSAP district leader Gerhard Thiele , more than 1,000 prisoners were murdered in the massacre in the Isenschnibber barn on April 13, 1945.

After his arrest, Brauny was indicted in the Dachau Dora Trial , which took place as part of the Dachau Trials from August 7, 1947 to December 30, 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Brauny is said to have severely abused Jewish prisoners in particular with hits and kicks and was also involved in executions in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp . He denied that he was involved in the massacre in the Isenschnibber field barn because, according to his own statements, he was no longer at the scene at the time of the crime. Brauny died on June 16, 1950 in custody in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison of complications from leukemia .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner : Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 666
  2. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 656
  3. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner (ed.): Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp 1943-1945 , Göttingen, 2007., pp. 199f.
  4. ↑ Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47 (English, PDF file, 28.1 MB)
  5. ^ Daniel Blatman: The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide , 2011, p. 361
personal data
SURNAME Brauny, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauny, Erhard Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1950
Place of death Landsberg am Lech