Hermann Grossmann (SS member)

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Hermann Grossmann (* 21st July 1901 ; † 19th November 1948 in prison for war criminals Landsberg ) was a German obersturmführer and as warehouse manager of the satellite camp of Buchenwald Wernigerode and Bochum club used.

Life

Hermann Grossmann, a member of the SS and the NSDAP , was deployed in the Buchenwald concentration camp from the end of August 1939. From May 1940 he acted as the commander of the security team at the Buchenwald concentration camp and from there in March 1943 was appointed head of the Buchenwald satellite camp in Wernigerode . There, the concentration camp prisoners in the Rautalwerke GmbH (also called Wernigwerke AG ), which had been expanded into a modern light metal foundry in 1938, manufactured parts for the armaments industry. In June 1944, Grossmann was transferred from Wernigerode to another Buchenwald sub-camp, the Bochumer Verein, as camp manager until the camp was evacuated in March 1945. In December 1944, over 1,600 registered, predominantly Jewish, concentration camp prisoners were active there in construction and earthworks as well as in projectile production.

After the end of the war, Grossmann was indicted with 30 other accused in the Dachau trials in the main Buchenwald trial. Grossmann was accused of mistreating and killing Allied prisoners, in particular the shooting of Soviet prisoners during an air raid was credibly documented by eyewitnesses. On August 14, 1947, Grossmann was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on November 19, 1948 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison.

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SURNAME Grossmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer and camp manager of the Buchenwald concentration camp subcamps
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1901
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1948
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison