Jakob Weiseborn

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Jakob Weiseborn (born March 22, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 20, 1939 in Flossenbürg ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and camp commandant of the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Life

Jakob Weiseborn, who served as a professional soldier for 18 years in the navy, was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 753.119) and SS (SS number 17.063). After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he was first starting in January 1935 at the Dachau concentration camp and as a disciplinary transfer from the end of 1935 at the concentration camp Esterwegen used. In April 1936 Weiseborn took over the post of head of the protective custody camp from Karl d'Angelo in the Dachau concentration camp. From the end of 1936 to July 1937 he acted as a protective custody camp leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then as the second protective custody camp leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp . The SS wrote the following slogan on the prisoners' barracks of the Buchenwald concentration camp: "In his anger, God created Hauptsturmführer Weiseborn."

Born as a chronic alcoholic , was founded in early May 1938 commandant of the concentration camp Flossenburg and remained so until January 1939. On 20 January 1939 Weisenborn committed in Flossenburg with poison suicide , as against him for embezzlement was determined in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

literature

  • Tom Segev : The Soldiers of Evil. On the history of the concentration camp commanders . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-18826-0 .
  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Holm Kirsten, Wulf Kirsten : Voices from Buchenwald. A reader. , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-574-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the literature there are also references in the spelling Ja c ob Weiseborn, for example in Abraham and Hershel Edelheit: History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . Westview Press 1994. ISBN 0-813-31411-9 .
  2. ↑ Tom Segev: The Soldiers of Evil. On the history of the concentration camp commanders , Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992, p. 86
  3. ↑ a b Holm Kirsten, Wulf Kirsten : Voices from Buchenwald. A reader. , Göttingen 2002, p. 17
  4. ^ Stanislav Zámečník: That was Dachau. , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 85
  5. ↑ Quoted in: Eugen Kogon: Der SS-Staat . Munich 1974, p. 57.
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 664.
personal data
SURNAME Weiseborn, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiseborn, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp commander
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1939
Place of death Flossenbürg