Heinrich Schäfer (SS member)

Heinrich Schäfer (born June 10, 1907 in Essen , † after 1949) worked as SS-Unterscharfuhrer in the canteen administration of the camp commandant of the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Heinrich Schäfer, a bricklayer by trade, had been a member of the SS since 1933 and of the NSDAP from May 1937 . In 1942 he was transferred from Warsaw to Ravensbrück together with Arthur Conrad from the reserve battalion of the SS Totenkopf Division. From March 1942 Schäfer belonged to the camp staff of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and worked in the canteen administration of the camp commandant's office . He was a member of the firing squad.

After the end of the Second World War , Schäfer had to answer for his crimes committed in the Ravensbrück concentration camp before a British military court in the fifth of the seven Ravensbrück trials . For participating in the killing of Allied prisoners, Schäfer was sentenced to two years in prison on July 15, 1948. After the verdict was confirmed, Schäfer was arrested on August 10, 1948 and released on October 28, 1949 for “good conduct”. Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

Stefan Hördler: Order and inferno. The concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 , pp. 414–416, (at the same time: dissertation, Berlin, Humboldt University, 2011; limited preview in the Google book search).
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 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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 , p. 36.
↑ ^a ^b Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno. The concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 , pp. 414 f., Note 256, ( limited preview in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Shepherd, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German employee of the canteen administration of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	20th century or 21st century

[Schäfer-1] 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 , p. 36.

[Hördler-2] Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno. The concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 , pp. 414 f., Note 256, ( limited preview in the Google book search).