Hans Aumeier

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Hans Aumeier

Hans Aumeier (born August 20, 1906 in Amberg , Bavaria ; † January 24, 1948 in Krakow ) was a German SS leader and war criminal who was deployed in a leading position in several concentration camps .

Life

Aumeier dropped out of school after just six years and then worked as an iron turner in rifle manufacture , interrupted by periods of unemployment . Aumeier belonged to the SA and worked there for a short period full-time. In August 1929 Aumeier became a member of the SS (SS No. 2,700) and soon after joining the SS was a member of the staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in Munich . In the SS Aumeier rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1944 . In December 1929 Aumeier became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 164.755). After the Dachau concentration camp was founded in 1933, Aumeier went through Theodor Eicke's “Dachau School” as a member of the 1st Guard Battalion “Upper Bavaria” . From April 1936 Aumeier belonged to the 4th SS skull regiment "Ostfriesland" at the Esterwegen concentration camp and in December 1936 moved to the Lichtenburg concentration camp, where he was also assigned as a company commander in the 2nd SS skull regiment "Elbe" to guard the concentration camp. Aumeier was then assigned to the 3rd SS Death's Head Regiment "Thuringia" in the same position at Buchenwald concentration camp before he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp at the beginning of August 1938 and worked there as a protective custody camp leader.

On February 1, 1942, Aumeier replaced Karl Fritzsch from the post of head of the protective custody camp in the main camp of Auschwitz and held this position until August 16, 1943. Aumeier gave the Kapos far-reaching powers, which led to an increase in the camp terror. He introduced the torture of standing cells in Block 11 and shot prisoners on the black wall . Aumeier was jointly responsible for mass shootings and selections in the Auschwitz main camp and, after the failed attempt at uprising by the penal company in June 1942, took part in the murder of the survivors of the uprising , as did Otto Moll and Franz Hößler . Because of theft and corruption, he was transferred to the newly created Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia at the instigation of Rudolf Höß in mid-August 1943 , where he was the camp commandant until the camp was evacuated in the summer of 1944 . There the camp administration carried out selections under Aumeier, to which men, women and children fell victim. Afterwards he was responsible for the Landsberg labor camp , branch offices of the Dachau concentration camp. In January 1945, Aumeier took over the Grini police prison camp in Norway as commandant , which existed until May 8, 1945. During his last station, Aumeier's behavior is said to have changed considerably, as he now appeared almost humane and also conducted negotiations with the Red Cross . Aumeier was arrested and interrogated by the British Army in Norway on June 11, 1945 . During the interrogation, he initially denied any knowledge of the gas chambers in Auschwitz, but later revised his statement. After being extradited to Poland, Aumeier was sentenced to death in the Kraków Auschwitz Trial before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland . The sentence was carried out by hanging on January 24, 1948 .

literature

  • Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oswiecim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2 .
  • 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 .
  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .
  • 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 - living conditions, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz , Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 364.
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 228f.
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 21.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 23.
  5. ↑ a b Short biography on ARC main page
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Graml, Hermann Weiß (eds.): Encyclopedia of National Socialism . 4th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-33007-4 , Part II, Lexicon, p. 777 .
  7. ↑ State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oswiecim 1998, p. 220.
  8. ↑ Maria Mandl ( memento from October 26, 2009 on WebCite ) in the WebCite archive
personal data
SURNAME Aumeier, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leaders in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Amberg , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1948
Place of death Krakow