Georg Bachmayer

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Georg Bachmayer (left) with SS men on the roll call area of ​​Mauthausen concentration camp

Georg Bachmayer (born August 12, 1913 in Fridolfing ( Bavaria ), † May 8, 1945 near Münzbach , Austria ) was German SS-Hauptsturmführer and the first protective custody camp leader of the Mauthausen concentration camp .

biography

Bachmayer, a trained carpenter, was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 3.204.530) and SS (membership number 69.535). At first he belonged to the 1st SS-Totenkopfstandard "Upper Bavaria". From March 1940, Bachmayer was the head of the protective custody camp in Mauthausen. Bachmayer was responsible for all prisoners there, as well as for that part of the SS team that was used for the administration and for guarding the prisoners within the camp. It was also one of Bachmayer's tasks to inspect the Mauthausen satellite camps. At the same time, he helped to set up the Ebensee satellite camp .

Bachmayer was regarded as extremely sadistic and was feared by the prisoners because of his brutality. He owned two trained mastiff-like bloodhounds, which he chased on prisoners and tore them to pieces, which in the concentration camp language was described as "died of the dog's kiss". There are a large number of individual reports according to which Bachmayer himself killed or tortured people. He is said to have told newly arrived prisoners when they arrived at the camp that no one had ever left Mauthausen alive and that the only way from there was through the chimney. It would be better to "get on the wires" right away, by which he meant the fences around the concentration camp secured with high voltage.

On May 8, 1945, Georg Bachmayer killed his wife and two children in the Hintermühle near Altenburg and committed suicide .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, June 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8

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personal data
SURNAME Bachmayer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Mauthausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Fridolfing (Bavaria)
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1945
Place of death near Münzbach