Hans Neumeister

Hans Neumeister (born October 28, 1908 in Reudnitz (Leipzig) , † 1996 in Weimar ) was a German former political prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp and, after 1945, a leader of the Buchenwald National Memorial (NMG).

Life dates

Neumeister was a book printer by trade. In 1929 he joined the KPD . As early as 1931 he was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for “preparation for high treason”. Neumeister was arrested for illegal political resistance activity and from 1935 onwards he was imprisoned for three years in the Waldheim penitentiary. On January 13, 1938, Neumeister was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a "protective prisoner" with the prisoner number 2,324. There he was as a Kapo in the prisoner write office used. Here, on behalf of the illegal Buchenwald Committee, he changed the identities of prisoners, who were thereby saved from imminent murder. By giving the names of the dead, the living could be saved. This was only possible in cooperation with confidants from the prisoner infirmary who had to register the names of the deceased.

Neumeister was one of the 46 prisoners who were supposed to be murdered by the SS in April 1945 and were therefore hidden by comrades. After the establishment of the NMG Buchenwald, he looked after groups of visitors on guided tours through the former warehouse.

After 1945 he was manager of the labor office in Weimar and a member of the district commission of VdN Weimar. From 1950 to 1954 he was head of the department in the Thuringian Ministry of Trade and Supply. From 1955 to 1969 he worked as a labor economist at VEB Talsperrenbau Weimar.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Wolfgang Röll: German Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 1937-1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X .
↑ Peter Hochmuth, Gerhard Hoffmann (ed.): Buchenwald, I cannot forget you. Pictures of life (= Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Texts. Vol. 35; PDF; 1.5 MB). Karl-Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02100-9 , p. 238.
↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 (= Wanted. Vol. 7). 2nd, corrected edition. Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisten et al., Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935275-14-9 , p. 187.

personal data
SURNAME	Neumeister, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political concentration camp inmate
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reudnitz (Leipzig)
DATE OF DEATH	1996
Place of death	Weimar

[röll-1] A ^b Wolfgang Röll: German Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 1937-1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X .

[2] Peter Hochmuth, Gerhard Hoffmann (ed.): Buchenwald, I cannot forget you. Pictures of life (= Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Texts. Vol. 35; PDF; 1.5 MB). Karl-Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02100-9 , p. 238.

[3] Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 (= Wanted. Vol. 7). 2nd, corrected edition. Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisten et al., Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935275-14-9 , p. 187.