Ewald Jauch

Ewald Jauch (born April 23, 1902 in Schwenningen ; † October 11, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German SS Oberscharführer in Neuengamme concentration camp and camp leader in the Neuengammer satellite camp on Bullenhuser Damm and Schandelah .

Life

Jauch was a member of the SS camp team at Neuengamme concentration camp from 1940 and was there for a time in 1944 a report leader in the main camp. From May 1944 to August 1944 Jauch was the command leader in the Schandelah satellite camp . From November 1944 Jauch acted as the command leader in the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp, his deputy was Johann Frahm . The satellite camp, a former school building at Bullenhuser Damm 92–94, was cleared by April 20, 1945. On the night of April 21, 1945, 20 Jewish children, whom the doctor Kurt Heissmeyer had requested from Auschwitz to experiment with TB pathogens on them in Neuengamme concentration camp, were hanged together with Soviet prisoners of war together with their carers to cover up the crime. Jauch was involved in the hangings.

Jauch left Hamburg at the end of April 1945 and fled to his parents' house in Schwenningen. Shortly after the end of the Second World War , Jauch was arrested in Schwenningen and interned in the Eselheide internment camp near Paderborn . In July 1946 he was indicted in the Curiohaus in one of the follow-up trials of the Neuengamme main trial for the child murders at Bullenhuser Damm. Jauch was to death by the strand condemned and on 11 October 1946, Frahm in prison Hameln executed .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Günther Schwarberg : The SS doctor and the children. Report on the Bullenhuser Damm murder Documentation: Daniel Haller. Edited by Henri Nannen Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1979, 1980 (2 volumes) Awarded the Anne Frank Prize in 1988. Frequent new editions, also under the title: The SS doctor and the children from Bullenhuser Damm z. B. Steidl, Göttingen 1994 ISBN 388243306X - Numerous translations (English, Romanian, Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association Children from Bullenhuser Damm eV - The perpetrators ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Heike Petry: Schandelah . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 521.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Marc Buggeln: Hamburg-Rothenburgsort (Bullenhuserdamm) . In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps . Vol. 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 415.
4. ↑ Günther Schwarberg: The SS doctor and the children from Bullenhuser Damm , Göttingen 1988, p. 76f.
5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 285.