Johanna Braach

Johanna Braach (* 16th May 1907 in Altenhundem , † after 1948) was a German Detective Chief Secretary in the era of National Socialism , who works in the "Reich Central Office for combating youth crime" and deputy head of the girls concentration camp Uckermark .

Life

Johanna Braach, a police officer by profession, joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,926,001) in early March 1937. From 1934 to 1941 she was employed by the female criminal police in Berlin . Then she worked in the "Reich Central Office for Combating Juvenile Crime" under Friederike Wieking in the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA). Together with Lotte Toberentz , Braach visited various camps in 1941 for information purposes. From mid-1942 until its dissolution in April 1945, Braach acted as the deputy head of the Uckermark girls' camp . Lotte Toberentz was her supervisor during this period. Around 1000 girls and young women are said to have been interned in Uckermark at the beginning of 1945.

In 1947 Braach headed the female police force in the Minden administrative district .

In the third Ravensbrück trial , also known as the “Uckermark Trial” (April 14-16, 1948), Braach and Toberentz were indicted together with three other female members of the SS entourage under British military jurisdiction in the Hamburg Curiohaus . The accused were charged with the following:

1. Abuse of female Allied prisoners in the Uckermark girls' camp from May 1942 to April 1945
2. Participation in the selection of female Allied prisoners for the gas chamber from May 1942 to April 1945 in the Uckermark girls' camp
3. Abuse of female Allied prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1944 to April 1945
4. Participation in selections of female Allied prisoners for the gas chamber in the period from May 1942 to April 1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp

Braach's charge included items one through four. Since the indictment only included crimes against Allied nationals and Braach in the girls' camp were only subject to German girls and young women whose fate was not the subject of the trial, he was acquitted on April 26, 1948.

Braach then returned to a managerial position at the West German criminal police. Nothing is known about her further life.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .
• Angelika Ebbinghaus (ed.): Victims and perpetrators. Women's biographies of National Socialism . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3-596-13094-8 .