Heinrich Peters (SS member)

Heinrich Peters (born August 22, 1890 in Auenbüttel ; † July 2, 1957 in Friedrichskoog ) was SS-Obersturmführer in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Heinrich Peters, a farmer by profession, was a member of the NSDAP and the SS since 1933 . After deployments in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , the Natzweiler concentration camp and probably the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp , Peters was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in August 1942. There he acted as a company commander of the SS guard battalion until February 1945. From July to autumn 1944, Peters was also temporarily the head of the protective custody camp for the men's camp in Ravensbrück.

After the end of the Second World War , Peters had to answer for his crimes committed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp before a British military tribunal in the first of the seven Ravensbrück trials . On February 3, 1947, Peters was sentenced to 15 years in prison and released on May 18, 1955 for “good conduct”.

Heinrich Peters died on July 2, 1957 in Friedrichskoog.

literature

• Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .
• Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .