Heinrich Eisenhöfer

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Heinrich Eisenhöfer (born February 19, 1892 in Pirmasens , † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer , head of the prisoner property administration and deputy administrative leader in Mauthausen concentration camp .

Life

Heinrich Eisenhöfer was born in Pirmasens near Kaiserslautern . After elementary school, he attended grammar school in Pirmasens, where he graduated from high school in 1911. Then he apparently completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1913 Eisenhöfer was drafted into the Reichsheer , where he served with the 18th Bavarian Infantry Regiment until the beginning of the war . After the mobilization, he served as a non-commissioned officer with the 5th Bavarian Infantry Regiment during the First World War . In August 1918 he came into British captivity, where he remained until November 30, 1919.

In 1920 he became a member of the Young German Order , in 1931 he resigned from it and joined the SS (SS No. 162.304). On March 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 2.266.758). From 1931 he worked at the Stahlwerk-Verband AG in Düsseldorf as a department head for railway and transport issues. In autumn 1938 he took part in the invasion of the Sudetenland as a reservist in the Air Force . On September 1, 1939, he was drafted into the Waffen SS .

At the beginning of September 1939 he began his service in the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he first acted as platoon leader, then as staff squad leader of the 2nd company of the SS Totenkopfsturmbannes . After his promotion to SS-Untersturmführer on January 30, 1942, he worked for a year as a company commander of the 4th Company, which at that time was used as a training company. In addition, between late 1942 and August 1943 he was employed as a commando in the Wiener Graben quarry . In February 1943 he was transferred to Department IV (Administration) and head of the prisoner property administration. In this function, Eisenhöfer was responsible for the safekeeping of the prisoners' personal belongings, the so-called effects. At the end of 1944 Eisenhöfer became the second administrative manager and treasurer.

On May 25, 1945 he was arrested by members of the US Army in Oberhof near Gotha and taken to the civil internment camp in Ohrdruf. On February 9, 1946, he was brought to Dachau , where he was indicted in the main Mauthausen trial . In court he admitted that he not only set up execution orders for executions, but also personally participated in several cases. On May 13, 1946, he was sentenced to death by hanging . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1947 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Gregor Holzinger (Ed.): The second row: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp . new academic press, Vienna, 2016 ISBN 978-3700319788

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 82.
  2. ↑ a b c Gregor Holzinger: The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 83.
  3. ^ A b c Gregor Holzinger: The second row: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp , Vienna, 2016, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenhöfer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Landsberg am Lech