Hans Dambach

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Hans Dambach (born March 30, 1915 in Haßloch ; † July 8, 1944 in Widuty , Ukraine) was a German SS man and concentration camp guard.

Life

Dambach came to Dachau concentration camp as an SS overseer in 1933 . Julius Zerfaß , who witnessed Dambach in Dachau in 1933/1934, later referred to him as SS-Scharführer in a chronicle of his published experience report Dachau . As a senior squad leader, he later took on tasks as a clothes administrator and, in the function of an SS company commander, supervised barrack No. 10 in the camp, which housed the infirmary , among other things . As a library sergeant, he was also responsible for the camp library set up in Barrack 10.

During his time in Dachau, Dambach was notorious as one of the most brutal and cruel overseers in the camp. In the camp literature on the Dachau concentration camp and in later research, he appears as one of the most frequently mentioned “torturers” of the camp.

“During the flogging, a blanket was thrown over the head of the delinquent, then the most notorious thugs beat them. They were, among others, the former Foreign Legionnaire Kantschuster , Dambach from Haßloch, Trenkle , Tremmel and Lutz. "

As head of Barrack 10, Dambach also prevented the monarchist journalist Erwein von Aretin from being brought into the relatively safe command. The SPD politician Kurt Schumacher remembered being harassed in Dachau in 1935 by an SS leader named Dambach, to whom he, however, assigned the first name Walter.

Dambach is still recorded as SS-Scharführer and Blockwalter in Dachau for 1937. The SOPADE , the SPD abroad, mentioned him in one of their reports this year:

"Blockführer is SS-Scharführer Dambach. He treats the prisoners very badly. You often hear his roaring ranting. There are guards in front of the barracks door and none of the prisoners are allowed to enter the camp yard. It is explained to them that no one can hope to leave the camp under ten years of age. "

Dambach was later transferred to the Gusen concentration camp and placed under Karl Chmielewski as a protective custody camp leader with the rank of Hauptscharführer.

Dambach died as a participant in the Second World War with the rank of corporal. His grave is on the war cemetery in Potylicz / Potelitsch.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Geisler: The Palatinate Social Democracy. Contributions to their history from the beginnings to 1948/49 , 1999, p. 550 mentions that Dambach came from Haßloch.
  2. ↑ Julius Zerfass: Dachau. P. 201.
  3. ↑ Eike Fröhlich: Bavaria in the Nazi era. 1983, p. 85.
  4. ↑ Torsten Seela: Books and Libraries in National Socialist Concentration Camps: the printed word in the anti-fascist resistance of the prisoners. 1992, p. 30 and Richardi: School of Violence. P. 87.
  5. ^ Geisler: The Palatinate Social Democracy. Contributions to its history from the beginning to 1948/49. 1999, p. 550.
  6. ↑ Dachauer Hefte. vol 7, 1991, p. 36.
  7. ^ Günther Scholz: Kurt Schumacher. 1988, p. 92.
  8. ↑ Personal entry with Ernst Schraepler: causes and consequences. From the German collapse in 1918 and 1945 to the state reorganization of Germany in the present. 1979, p. 129.
  9. ↑ Germany reports of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sopade), Vol. 4, 1937.
  10. ^ Fritz Bauer: Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of German criminal convictions for national-socialist homicides 1945-1999. Vol. 26, p. 752 and Karl Dietrich Bracher: Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of German criminal convictions for national-socialist homicides 1945-1999. Vol. 30, p. 439.
  11. ^ Bracher: Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of German criminal convictions for national-socialist homicides 1945-1999. Vol. 30, p. 439.
personal data
SURNAME Dambach, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS man and concentration camp overseer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hassloch
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1944
Place of death Widuty , Ukraine