Franz Boettger
Franz Böttger (born July 11, 1888 , † May 29, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and was employed as a labor and report leader in the Dachau concentration camp .
biography
Böttger, married and childless, was a sales representative for jewelry and precious stones in Munich. Böttger was drafted into the Waffen-SS in 1940 and deployed to the guard company in the Dachau concentration camp from June 1940 to November 1940. In May 1941 he returned to Dachau as a supply officer and was then responsible for censoring letters at the post office of the camp commandant from September 1941 to November 1943. From December 1, 1943 to the end of April 1945, he was employed as a labor and report leader in the protective custody camp. During this time his direct superiors were Michael Redwitz and Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert . His tasks included assigning prisoners to work details, holding roll calls, handling prisoner transports and participating in executions in the crematorium . On April 26, 1945, Böttger accompanied an evacuation transport with 8,000 prisoners to Tyrol and guarded a group of German prisoners. After the SS men had left the evacuation march at the end of April 1945 and the Wehrmacht took over the guarding of the prisoners, Böttger went to Munich in his apartment and fled on his bicycle shortly before the US Army occupied Munich . He was later tracked down, probably by former Dachau prisoners, and taken to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was mistreated by previous inmates. Then he was handed over to the present US Army and interned.
On November 15, 1945 Boettger in Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place when war American US by a military court indicted and on 13 December 1945, 35 other co-accused by the death by hanging convicted. In the judgment, Böttger's individual acts of excess were taken into account: participation in executions, the mistreatment of prisoners and the shooting of a prisoner. In his defense, Böttger stated that he would never have bloodied prisoners. The sentence was carried out on May 29, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .
literature
- Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
- Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5
Web links
- August Siebecke: A murderer as a neighbor - basically a sadist , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 3, 2005
- The walk from Dachau and Allach with the destination Tyrol memento on archive.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American Occupation of Germany , 1995, pp. 927f.
- ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 318
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böttger, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Report leader in the Dachau concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1946 |
| Place of death | Landsberg War Crimes Prison |