Hans Bock (prison inmate)

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Hans Bock (* 1901 , †, between November 1943 and January 1945 in Łagisza ) was a German prisoner functionary in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Auschwitz .

Bock was imprisoned as a so-called " preventive detainee". He is said to have had a criminal record for embezzlement. According to Kazimierz Szczerbowski, a survivor of Auschwitz, Bock was sent to a concentration camp as a so-called " professional criminal " soon after the seizure of power in 1933 . Before he was transferred to Auschwitz, he worked in the infirmary of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. With prisoner number 5, Bock was one of the 30 German so-called criminal prisoners who were the first internees to be transferred to the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp on May 20, 1940 , to be used as prisoner functionaries for the camp operations .

In the main camp , Hans Bock, as Kapo , block and first camp elder of the prisoner infirmary , was in charge of administration and supervision. According to Władysław Fejkiel , this enabled him to fill coveted positions within the infirmary with people of his choice. This group of people is said to have consisted exclusively of young men for whom he is said to have cherished an affection. Medical treatment of prisoners by other competent prisoners was strictly prohibited in the camp. According to the later testimony of interned doctors Stanisław Kłodziński and Władysław Fejkiel, however, the morphine-dependent goat disregarded the ban by deliberately letting the imprisoned doctors practice.

The first clerk of the Szczerbowski prisoner infirmary said after the end of the war that Bock was "definitely the most humane of the thirty kapos who had been brought to Auschwitz". “He made a personal decision about every admission to the hospital. [...] He was responsible for every area of ​​the hospital and took care of every sick person. Over time, he gave Polish doctors greater freedom. He had respect for superior expertise ”. Block elder Emil de Martini , who worked under buck, also expressed himself positively: “He wasn't bad. He never hit or yelled at an inmate. He helped sick people as best he could. "

After the calendar of events at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Danuta Czech Bock had in the murder of prisoners by injecting phenol participate. On August 14, 1941, he killed the Franciscan Fr. Maximilian Kolbe OFMConv and three other prisoners in the “hunger bunker” of Block 11 . At the end of July 1941, the head of the protective custody camp, Karl Fritzsch , ordered ten prisoners to starve to death in retaliation for the alleged escape of a prisoner. Kolbe then voluntarily took the place of the father Franciszek Gajowniczek . When the bunker was needed for new death row inmates, the camp administration decided to use lethal injection to kill the prisoners who were still alive.

According to Hermann Langbein , a survivor of Auschwitz , after Bock's addiction and homosexual relationships became known, the Political Department investigated him. After all, the young Poles with whom he had a love affair are said to have been locked in block 11 . Bock himself was transferred to Buna as a block elder in the spring of 1943 . According to the SS-Oberscharführer Herbert Scherpe , its implementation was due to an internal violation. Bock is said to have stored medicines incorrectly, as he wrote Martini. In November 1943 he was transferred to the Lagischa satellite camp , where Hans Bock became the camp elder of the prisoner infirmary there.

After taking an overdose of morphine, Bock committed suicide in the Lagischa subcamp. According to another statement, he died of typhus .

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  1. ↑ Angelika Königseder: Auschwitz concentration camp . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 268.
  2. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz , Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 249f.
  3. ↑ a b Kazimierz Szczerbowski: The first clerk in the Auschwitz district. Memories . In: Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.): Die Auschwitz-Hefte , Volume 1; Roger & Bernhard Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-8077-0282-2 , p. 158.
  4. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, p. 53f.
  5. ↑ Transport May 20, 1940 Sachsenhausen (online)
  6. ^ Emil de Martini on Hans Bock. Quoted from: Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz , Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 249f.
  7. ^ Danuta Czech : Calendar of the events in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 1939–1945 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, p. 111.
  8. ^ Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz , Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 249f.
  9. ^ 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, letter from the Defendant Scherpe (online)
  10. ^ 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, interrogation of the witness Emil de Martini (online)
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prison functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
DATE OF DEATH between November 1943 and January 1945
Place of death Łagisza