Friedrich Ebsen

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Friedrich Ebsen (born June 6, 1888 in Güldenberg ; † May 2, 1947 in Hameln ) was SS-Unterscharführer , camp leader of the Schandelah satellite camp and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Ebsen was a professional gamekeeper, was the Deacon Institute Rickling formed as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein brotherhood and was then for the Inner Mission of the National Federation involved, whose member he was from 1914 to 1920. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . From 1928 to July 1942 he worked in the Ricklinger Anstalten as a parenting assistant and caretaker and then until October 1942 he worked at the marine witness office in Schleswig-Holstein.

According to his own statements, he then received the order from the SS supplementary office to report to the Oranienburg concentration camp and stayed briefly in the Buchenwald concentration camp two weeks later . He then worked in the Flossenbürg concentration camp . From January 1943 worked for the SS in Hamburg to find employment with the guards of the Neuengamme concentration camp until the end of February 1943 . He was transferred to the Wittenberge satellite camp in February 1944 , from which he returned to the Neuengamme concentration camp in June of the same year. From August 11, 1944 to April 1945, Ebsen was the successor of Ewald Jauch as the camp manager of the Schandelah satellite camp, which was operated by the "Deutsche Alphalt AG" and the "Steinöl-GmbH Braunschweig" with the financial participation of the Reich government to extract oil from an oil shale deposit has been. Ebsen worked to the satisfaction of the SS, so that SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans-Joachim von Kruedener , who coordinated the desert company for oil shale extraction, wanted to send him to Württemberg to set up camp.

After the end of the Second World War he was sentenced to death by hanging by the British Military Tribunal in Braunschweig on February 3, 1947 . The sentence was on May 2, 1947 prison Hameln enforced .

Behavior and action

The contempt for human beings and the extent of Ebsen's crimes were made clear by testimony during the war crimes trial in Braunschweig. It can be shown that he was primarily responsible for the deaths of around 200 concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengammer subcamp Schandelah and, moreover, that he had committed murders himself.

The employee Hartmann of Steinöl-GmbH testified in the war crimes trial that Ebsen describes the prisoners to the civilian employees of the Schandelah camp as "the discharge of humanity and everyone should treat them as such".

The resistance fighter Eugene Marion from France, who was a concentration camp prisoner in Schandelah, testified about Ebsen's brutal behavior: “On a Sunday afternoon he let all the prisoners line up to watch them punish two men. Ebsen hit her up to 25 times with a whip. Usually he had these punishments carried out by kapos ”.

The witness, French concentration camp prisoner Leon Claude, reported that after his arrest he hit an 18-year-old Belgian prisoner who had fled first with his fist and then with a 4 cm thick stick in the face and over the head: “The victim collapsed covered in blood and died the next day without having regained consciousness ”.

After being sentenced to death, like other Nazis , he declared himself innocent. His wife, relatives and employers stood up for him with the arguments that he was friendly and incapable of criminal acts and 32 people signed a petition with the wording “that they knew Ebsen as a decent and good man. He was always ready to help everyone wherever he could ”.

literature

  • Heike Petry: "Re .: Use of concentration camp prisoners in Schandelah" - forced labor for the oil shale project of Steinöl GmbH . In: Gudrun Fiedler, Hans-Ulrich Ludewig: Forced Labor and War Economy in the State of Braunschweig 1939–1945 . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-930292-78-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petry: Use of prisoners, p. 247.
  2. ↑ Petry: Use of prisoners, p. 253.
  3. ↑ Testimony from Hartmann, an employee in the war crimes trial before the British Military Court in Braunschweig
  4. ^ Testimony by Eugene Marion in the war crimes trial before the British Military Court in Braunschweig
  5. ^ Statement by Leon Claude in the war crimes trial before the British Military Court in Braunschweig
  6. ↑ Excerpt from the signature collection of Ebsen's wife in Rickling
personal data
SURNAME Ebsen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and camp leader of the Schandelah concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Guldenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1947
Place of death Hamelin on the Weser