Fritz Seidler

Fritz August Seidler (born July 18, 1907 in Werdau ; † May 6, 1945 in Ober circing ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custody camp leader in the Auschwitz and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps .

Life

Fritz Seidler, a trained construction technician, was a member of the NSDAP from November 1, 1935 ( membership number 3,693,999) and of the SS from March 12, 1933 (membership number 135,387). Seidler was initially a company commander of the guards in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In November 1941, he succeeded Franz Xaver Maier as 2nd Protective Custody Camp Leader in Auschwitz Concentration Camp and was also camp leader for Soviet prisoners of war there until March 1942 . He was later transferred to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he was Karl Chmielewski's successor as first protective custody camp leader from October 1942 to early May 1945 . Seidler, notorious for his cruelty, ordered the gassing of invalid prisoners in Gusen I and a massacre of prisoners in Gusen II in April 1945 . Towards the end of the war, Seidler is said to have shot his family and then himself on May 3, 1945. According to other sources, he died in combat operations on May 6, 1945.

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 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 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 .

Web links

Short biography of Seidler

Individual evidence

↑ Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 230f.
↑ Short biography of Seidler at www.gusen-memorial.at
^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 374

personal data
SURNAME	Seidler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seidler, Fritz August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Werdau
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 1945
Place of death	Upper District

[Lasik230f-1] Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 230f.

[2] Short biography of Seidler at www.gusen-memorial.at

[Klee374-3] Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 374