Grete Boesel

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Grete Boesel , according to other data also evil , Böseln or evil , (* 9. May 1908 in Elberfeld , † 2. May 1947 in Hameln ) was guard in concentration camp .

Life

In 1940, the trained nurse Grete Boesel accepted a position at Continental AG in Hanover . Her employer sent her to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in August 1944 to train as an overseer. Between September and December 1944 or January 1945 she worked in this position in Ravensbrück. Because of an infection with typhus , she was unable to work until mid-March 1945. After returning to work, she noticed that the conditions for the inmates of the concentration camp had deteriorated significantly.

One of Boesel's tasks was to put together the work details. In doing so, she abused women. She is credited with the following quote: "Let them [the inmates] die if they cannot work."

In the first Hamburg Ravensbrück trial , Boesel was sentenced to death by hanging .

Boesel's lawyer - he also defended the co-defendant Dorothea Binz in court - objected in a petition for clemency that his client only came to Ravensbrück as a result of a compulsory obligation, where she was only employed for three months in a limited range of tasks. But Boesel's pardon was refused.

In prison Hameln , the condemned man was in the morning at 9:55 am on May 2, 1947 hanged .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telegraf 1947 No. 26, quoted from Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 , p. 185
personal data
SURNAME Boesel, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grete evil; Grete Böseln; Grete evil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1947
Place of death Hamelin