Hans Schurz

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Hans Schurz (born December 28, 1913 in St. Salvator , † after April 1945, pronounced dead in 1950 by the Vienna Regional Court) was an Austrian criminal secretary, SS-Untersturmführer and head of the political department in Auschwitz .

Life

Schurz became a member of the NSDAP at the beginning of February 1932 ( membership number 1.618.368) and after the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich on March 15, 1938, a member of the SS (SS number 385.370). During the Second World War Schurz was transferred to the Gestapo in Teschen .

On May 1, 1943, he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he initially represented the head of the Political Department, Maximilian Grabner . After Grabner's replacement, he took over the management of the Political Department in Auschwitz on December 1, 1943 and remained in this position until the "evacuation" of Auschwitz in January 1945. He was then sent to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , where he worked from March to April 1945 still headed the Political Department. Prisoner Franz Unikower , who worked in the Political Department and who was under Schurz's position, reported after the end of the war: “First, for about 14 days, I sorted files from Auschwitz that had arrived in a furniture van in alphabetical order. The files were extraordinary ”.

Schurz's whereabouts are unknown; the Vienna Regional Court declared him dead in 1950. The former head of the identification service of the Political Department in Auschwitz, Bernhard Walter , testified after the end of the war that, to his knowledge, Schurz had escaped from British internment.

literature

  • 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 .
  • 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 - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog, ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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: Structure and Structure of the Camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 201
  2. ^ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Göttingen 2001, p. 651
  3. ↑ Quoted from Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 370
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 369f.
personal data
SURNAME Schurz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS-Untersturmführer and head of the political department in Auschwitz
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Salvator
DATE OF DEATH after April 1945