Johann Niemann

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Johann Niemann

Johann Niemann (born August 4, 1913 in Völlen ; † October 14, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer member of the camp team in the Sobibor extermination camp.

Life

Johann Niemann, a painter and house painter by profession, became a member of the NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 753.836) and also joined the SS (membership number 270.600). He was Unterscharfuhrer of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . Between 1934 and 1941 he was deployed in the Esterwegen concentration camp and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He then worked as a corpse burner in the Bernburg Nazi killing center as part of " Aktion T4 " . As part of " Aktion Reinhardt ", he was then deployed to the Belzec extermination camp until he was permanently transferred to the Sobibor extermination camp. There he temporarily held the function of the camp commandant on duty.

After a ride on horseback, Niemann arrived punctually on October 14, 1943 to try on his uniform in the tailor's shop and was the first SS man to be killed with two ax blows by the inmate Arkadij Schubajew during the uprising in Sobibor .

In 2015, a private collection of more than 300 paintings owned by the grandson of Henriette Niemann, the widow of Johann Niemann, the training center was Stanisław Hantz eV donated, published in January 2020 as a book and from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington acquired . Johann Niemann documented his career in the SS in two albums and further single photos, from the Esterwegen concentration camp to the crimes of so-called “euthanasia” to “Aktion Reinhard” in Belzec and Sobibor, where he was largely responsible for the implementation of the murder program. Iwan Demjanjuk, who was sentenced in Munich in 2011, can also be seen on the camp grounds in Sobibor.

The found savings accounts of the wife and her father show high cash deposits, which indicate that Niemann has enriched himself with Jewish valuables.

literature

  • Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz eV: Schöne Zeiten - Material collection on the extermination camps of Aktion Reinhardt Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka , Reader.
  • Barbara Distel : Sobibor . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Diestel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , p. 376 ff.
  • Martin Cüppers et al .: Photos from Sobibor. The Niemann Collection on Holocaust and National Socialism , ed. from Bildungswerk Stanisław Hantz eV and the Ludwigsburg Research Center of the University of Stuttgart, Metropol-Verlag Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-86331-506-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Martin Cüppers et al .: Photos from Sobibor - The Niemann Collection on Holocaust and National Socialism . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86331506-1
  3. ↑ Martin Cuppers et al .: photos from Sobibor ... . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86331506-1 , p. 191.
  4. ↑ Martin Cuppers et al .: photos from Sobibor ... . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86331506-1 , p. 298 and p. 336–337.
personal data
SURNAME Niemann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Untersturmführer in the Sobibor extermination camp
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Full
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1943
Place of death Sobibor extermination camp