Josef Kollmer

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Josef Kollmer (born February 26, 1901 in Handel , † January 24, 1948 in Krakow ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer in Auschwitz concentration camp .

Life

Kollmer, who worked as a farmer, joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4.263.096) in May 1937 and the SS (SS number 267.573) in early January 1935 . He was a member of the SS camp crew from January 25, 1941, where he a. a. from May 1941 to December 1942 was company commander of the 4th Guard Company. From October 1943 to May 1944 Kollmer was posted to the Dora labor camp . He was then transferred back to Auschwitz, where he was first company commander of the 2nd SS Guard Company and from August 1944 to mid-November 1944 of the Monowitz Guard Company. He was then transferred to the 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division .

After the end of World War II Kollmer was in Auschwitz Trial before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland on 22 December 1947 to death by the strand convicted. According to the verdict, he was involved in executions at the Black Wall and in the crematoria of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . He was executed in late January 1948 .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
  • 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 , p. 329f.
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X . Here: Volume 1, p. 346.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 228
personal data
SURNAME Kollmer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dealers
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1948
Place of death Krakow