Franz Xaver Maier

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Franz Xaver Maier , also Mair (born January 7, 1913 in Hausham ; † July 8, 1970 in Munich ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and second protective custody camp leader in the main camp of Auschwitz .

Life

Maier was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.075.055) and the SS (SS number 69.600). He was first employed in the Dachau concentration camp and later with the SS death's head associations in the Buchenwald concentration camp . In June 1940 he was transferred to the newly opened main camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he became the second protective custody camp leader under Karl Fritzsch . Maier, who was described by the camp commandant Rudolf Höß as one of the “most unpleasant figures in every respect”, was involved in the execution of the corporal punishment, which was still forbidden at the time. At the end of 1941, under the direction of his superior Fritzsch, he also took part in the first mass gassing with Zyklon B in the main camp, in which 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick Polish prisoners were murdered. Maier was removed from his post due to pushing and embezzlement. In November 1941 Fritz Seidler succeeded him as the second protective custody camp leader in the main camp of Auschwitz. In 1943 Maier rose to SS-Untersturmführer.

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 .
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1970. 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. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 266
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 266, p. 374
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mair, Franz Xaver (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Untersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hausham
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1970
Place of death Munich