Heinz Grabowski

Heinz Grabowski (born November 13, 1920 in Osterode am Harz ; † August 21, 1945 ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and was the first camp leader in the Rottleberode subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp and from 1944 of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .

Life

From March 9 to November 1944, at the age of 22, Heinz Grabowski was the first camp manager of the Rottleberode subcamp. As such, he was responsible, among other things, for the deployment of prisoners in the Heimkehle . From July 1944, some of the prisoners had to work on neighboring construction sites and in the Uftrungen sawmill . His successor was Erhard Brauny .

After the end of the Second World War , Heinz Grabowski was imprisoned and probably sentenced to death as a war criminal and executed in Merseburg .

literature

Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 191.

Individual evidence

^ Jens Christian Wagner: Rottleberode satellite camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , Volume 7, Munich 2008, pp. 330–331.

personal data
SURNAME	Grabowski, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS Untersturm and camp leader in the Rottleberode subcamp
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH	August 21, 1945

[Wagner330f-1] Jens Christian Wagner: Rottleberode satellite camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , Volume 7, Munich 2008, pp. 330–331.