Hermann Helbig (SS member)

Photo from 1947

Hermann Helbig (born June 7, 1902 , † November 19, 1948 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and was employed as a command leader in the crematorium of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Hermann Helbig, a member of the SS , was a member of the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1939 to April 1945. Helbig is said to have participated in Kommando 99 , the execution squad of the concentration camp. From March 1943 to May 1944, Helbig headed the command in the camp's own crematorium. The eight inmates of the crematorium detail are said to have received a box with food, coffee and cigarettes two to three times a month for their work. As head of the crematorium, Helbig was also the official executioner of the Buchenwald concentration camp at times .

After the end of the war, Helbig was charged with 30 other accused as part of the Dachau trials in the main Buchenwald trial. Helbig was accused of hanging about 250 Allied prisoners to death. In addition, Helbig stated that he had belonged at least ten times to a firing squad that killed 15 to 20 prisoners by shooting . On August 14, 1947 Helbig was to death by the strand convicted and executed on 19 November 1948 for the war Landsberg prison.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .

Web links

• Buchenwald main trial (United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. - Case 000-50-9) Original document in English (PDF file; 33.04 MB)
• Photo by Hermann Helbig