Heinrich Meier (SS member)

Heinrich Meier (born December 27, 1910 in Paderborn ; † March 9, 1989 ibid) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and block leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Heinrich Meier was born into a working-class family. From 1917 to 1925 he attended the Catholic elementary school in Paderborn and trained as a saddler . After the journeyman's examination in 1929, he worked as an assistant in his training company for a year until he was dismissed in March 1930. He was unemployed for the next four years.

In 1934 he became a member of the SS . In April 1935 he joined the SS-Totenkopfverband "Brandenburg" , which was responsible for guard duty in the Columbia concentration camp . At the end of 1936, Meier began guard duty in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, was transferred to the commandant's staff there in August 1937, was employed in the post censorship department and was promoted to block leader in early 1939. A former prisoner later testified that Meier had left prisoners with the remains of the SS food and that “in contrast to other block leaders, he behaved as a person”.

In June 1941 he delivered at least 95 prisoners who had been selected to be gassed as unfit for work at the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center near Pirna . In the autumn of 1941 he was involved in the murder of around 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war . In the summer of 1942, Meier was sent to Kiev with a prisoner detachment to open the captured safes. After returning to Sachsenhausen, he was posted to the front in the SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" in the spring of 1943 .

In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he later fled. He then found a job as a decorator in Paderborn. In February 1964 he was taken into custody . On May 28, 1965, he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison by the Cologne Regional Court for aiding and abetting the murder of at least 377 Soviet prisoners of war. The time in custody was taken into account and the remainder of the sentence was suspended.

literature

Günter Morsch (Ed.): The concentration camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86331-403-3

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 309.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 310.
^ ^A ^b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 311.

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Hauptscharführer and Blockführer in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1989
Place of death	Paderborn

[:1-1] A ^b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 309.

[:2-2] A ^b ^c ^d Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 310.

[Morsch-3] A ^b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 311.