Fritz Ritterbusch

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Fritz Ritterbusch (born January 11, 1894 in Zschackau , † May 14, 1946 in an unknown location) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and member of the guards at the Flossenbürg , Hinzert , Lublin-Majdanek and Gross-Rosen concentration camps . He was the head of a camp complex in Trautenau - Parschnitz .

Life and functions

family

Fritz Ritterbusch was the son of the master brickworker Hermann Ritterbusch from Zschakau (today Beilrode ). His brother Paul Ritterbusch was one of the most prominent National Socialist science officials. Another brother, Willi Ritterbusch , was Commissioner General in the Netherlands from 1943 to 1945 . Another brother was Karl Ritterbusch and also SS-Hauptsturmführer , as well as an officer of the 91st SS standard in Wittenberg .

Nazi career

Ritterbusch took part in the First World War as an infantryman from 1914 to 1918 and served in the 153rd and 264th Infantry Regiments of the Prussian Army . In 1925 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 6.317). In 1931 Ritterbusch joined the SS (SS No. 9.107), where he became an officer of the 91st SS Standard in Wittenberg in 1934 .

From spring 1940 to January 30, 1941 he held an unspecified position in the guards of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and was later appointed platoon leader there. On January 10, 1943, Ritterbusch was transferred to the SS special camp in Hinzert , where he acted as adjutant to camp commandant Paul Sporrenberg . On June 18, 1943, he was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp administration . In March 1944 he was transferred to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , where he became the superordinate camp leader of a network of seven women's subcamps in the Trautenau region. The so-called SS-Kommando Trautenau had its seat in Parschnitz (Poříčí). On January 30, 1945 Ritterbusch was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer .

After the end of the Second World War

Ritterbusch was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces on January 12, 1946 . On March 25, 1946, he was sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal . On May 14, 1946, the sentence was carried out in an undisclosed location. An application for rehabilitation made in 2002 was rejected by the Russian Military Prosecutor's Office.

Orders and awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nieuwe Venlosche Courant v. December 13, 1943, digitized
  2. ↑ a b Stummeyer, Ute: Paul Bosse his clinic in Wittenberg; unwanted search for truth . 1st edition. Projects-Verlag Cornelius, Eisleben 2014, ISBN 978-3-95486-497-3 , p. 256 ( google.de [accessed on March 8, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c Łukasz Najbarowski, Waldemar Sadaj: Numery członków General SS oraz Waffen-SS , ISSN  2082-7431 . SS member numbers 9000 to 9999 .
  4. ↑ Aleksander Lasik: Organizational structure and personnel files of the management of the Majdanek concentration camp in the years 1941-1944. Attachment. Ed .: Zeszyty Majdanka. No. 22 , 2003, p. 184–185 (Polish, archive.org [PDF] Original title: Struktura organizacyjna oraz obsada osobowa stanowisk kierowniczych w obozie koncentracyjnym na Majdanku w latach 1941-1944 . Aneks. ).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 6: Natzweiler, Groß-Rosen, Stutthof. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52966-5 .
  6. ↑ Miroslav Kryl, Ludmila Chládková: Pobočky koncentračniho tábora Gross-Rosen ve lnářských závodech Trutnovska za nacistické okupace . VHJ Lnářský Průmysl, Trutnov, 1981 (The Groß-Rosen subcamps in the flax factories in the Trautenau area during the National Socialist occupation)
  7. ^ Isabell Sprenger: Gross-Rosen: a concentration camp in Silesia. Böhlau, 1996, p. 263. ISBN 3412113964
  8. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: Women in the subcamps of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . Metropol-Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3863311629
  9. ↑ Belah Guṭerman: A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945. Berghahn Books, 2008, p. 132, ISBN 9780857450531
  10. ↑ Communication from the German Red Cross I / 5 2000202721 from January 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Ritterbusch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp commandant
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschakau
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1946