Erich Frommhagen

Erich Frommhagen (born February 27, 1912 in Salzwedel ; † March 17, 1945 in the Stuhlweissenburg area , Hungary ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and adjutant of the camp commandant in Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps .

Life

After the handover of power to the National Socialists, Frommhagen joined the SS in May 1933 (SS number 73.754) and in early May 1937 the NSDAP ( membership number 4.330.301).

After the beginning of the Second World War he was a company commander in the SS Totenkopf Infantry Regiment 3 . In mid-September 1940 he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was Josef Kramer's successor from November 1, 1940 to November 1, 1941, adjutant to camp commandant Rudolf Höß . Then he was adjutant to the camp commandant in Neuengamme concentration camp.

At the end of the war he died during fighting in Hungary.

literature

• Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 . , P. 130.
• 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, five 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 , p. 184.