Gustav Binder (SS member)

Gustav Binder (born October 13, 1910 in Bergen, Austria ; † May 3, 1947 in Hameln (executed)) was the Austrian SS-Unterscharfuhrer and deputy manager of the prisoner tailoring in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Binder, a tailor by trade, joined the SS in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1938 . In 1934 he completed a qualifying course for work in concentration camps in Dachau concentration camp . In July 1939 he was employed in the tailoring department in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. There, female prisoners had to produce uniforms for the Waffen SS and concentration camp prisoner clothing in shifts.

The SS company " German Society for Textile and Leather Processing (Texled)" (from 1944 "Deutsche Textil- und Bekleidungswerke GmbH") officially took over the prisoner tailoring of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1940. As a result, Binder became the deputy of the operations manager of SS-Oberscharführer Joseph Graf and carried out this activity until the camp was closed in April 1945.

According to former female inmates in the tailoring shop, Binder is said to have regularly and severely mistreated the inmates. Gustav Binder was sentenced to death in the first Ravensbrück trial on February 3, 1947; the verdict was confirmed on March 31, 1947. Despite a petition for clemency brought by him, the death sentence was carried out by hanging on May 3, 1947.

literature

• Bärbel Schmidt: History and symbolism of the striped concentration camp inmate clothing . Dissertation. Oldenburg 2000, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 715-oops-4400
• 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 .

Individual evidence

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