Fritz Buntrock

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Fritz Wilhelm Buntrock (born March 8, 1909 in Osnabrück , † January 24, 1948 in Krakow ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and Rapportführer in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Buntrock, a blacksmith by trade, joined the SS in 1935 (SS No. 259.831) and the NSDAP in 1937 . During the Second World War , Buntrock was deployed from July 1942 to August 1944 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , where he was continuously report leader and camp manager in the “ Theresienstadt family camp ”. As the report leader of the Auschwitz gypsy camp, Buntrock accompanied its dissolution and the transport of the prisoners there to the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in early August 1944 . Because of his brutal demeanor, he was nicknamed the Bulldog in the camp . From Buntrock comes the saying: “Wherever I go, grass no longer grows.” He received the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords .

After the war, Buntrock was in Auschwitz Trial before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland on December 22, 1947 to death by the strand convicted and on January 24, 1948 executed .

literature

  • Miroslav Kárný : The Theresienstädter Family Camp (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943 – July 1944) , in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), p. 154.
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Miroslav Kárný: The Theresienstädter Family Camp (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943 – July 1944) , in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), p. 154.
  2. ^ State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (ed.): Auschwitz death books: Fragments . Volume 1. Reports. Saur, Munich 1995, p. 154.
  3. ^ Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, pp. 475f.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Buntrock, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buntrock, Fritz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharführer in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1948
Place of death Krakow