Fritz Ficker

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Fritz Ficker (born September 11, 1913 in Hohndorf ; † July 1948 ; declared dead in 1956 by the Hohndorf District Court ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and block leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Fritz Ficker was the son of a miner . After attending primary school, he did an apprenticeship in a metalworking company. He devoted all of his free time to sport.

In 1933 Ficker became a member of the SA . In June 1934 he enlisted in the military for two and a half years. In 1936 he was released from the army as a private . In 1936 he joined the SS-Totenkopfverband in Prettin . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1938 he took part in the invasion of Austria and the Sudetenland with the “Brandenburg” skull standard .

On March 1, 1939, Ficker was transferred to the command staff of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and shortly thereafter appointed block leader in the "isolation", an area that was sealed off from the rest of the camp. But he also killed indirectly, for example by deliberately letting inmates “play sports” until they collapsed. In addition, he took part in several mass murders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, such as the one against the Soviet prisoners of war in autumn 1941. After being appointed SS-Oberscharführer, Ficker was entrusted with the post of command leader in the Sachsenhausen subcamp Klinkerwerk. Here, too, he stood out for his brutality and viciousness. In the spring of 1943 he was promoted to report leader of the Falkensee satellite camp.

In January 1944 he came to the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp as a labor service leader . He stayed here until April 1945. He then drove a column of prisoners on a death march across the Harz Mountains . He was interned by the British forces in the summer of 1945 and extradited to the Soviet authorities the following year.

In October 1947 Ficker was indicted in a Soviet military tribunal in the Sachsenhausen trial and sentenced to life imprisonment with forced labor on October 31, 1947 for his involvement in the murder of Soviet prisoners of war . While in custody, he died in the gulag in Vorkuta in July 1948 . On August 22, 1956, the district court of Hohndorf declared Ficker dead.

literature

  • Günter Morsch (Ed.): The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-823-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 223.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 224.
  3. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 225.
personal data
SURNAME Ficker, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohndorf
DATE OF DEATH July 1948