External concentration camp command Valepp Bauer Marx

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The Valepp Bauer Marx concentration camp external command existed from October 1944 until the end of National Socialist rule . In the linguistic jargon at the time , it was called the external command , and it was one of the external work assignments, ie one of the satellite camps of the Dachau concentration camp . The concentration camp prisoner was deployed on a farm in Valepp , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Schliersee . The establishment of the external command went back to a personal acquaintance between Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and the farmer Marx.

prehistory

In Valepp, south of the Spitzingsee on the border with Austria, a former customs service residential building was converted into a hunting lodge for Himmler between 1942 and 1944 . Prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp were also used here. Farmer Marx used the nearby Ochsenalm and in 1937 had to surrender part of the meadows belonging to the Alm for the construction of the customs building. Because of the close proximity to the hunting lodge, Marx and Himmler became acquainted, which encouraged the peasant to write to the Reichsführer of the SS .

In a first letter from June 1943, Marx described the bottlenecks that he had due to health restrictions and the failure of his three sons who were at the front, and asked Himmler for a son to be given leave from the front . Himmler personally or his personal staff took care of the farmer's concerns. In a letter to Marx, Himmler, who had studied agriculture, expressed extreme understanding of the farmer's predicament and promised to assign him a “ protective prisoner ” from among the ranks of the Bible Students (Jehovah's Witnesses). He described their relatives as members of “a crazy sect”, but at the same time expressed his respect for them, that they were people “who work very well, but who, as we say here in Bavaria,” spinning '. ”Himmler also turned to Oswald Pohl , head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office , and immediately instructed a“ Bible Researcher ”to be assigned as soon as Marx agreed. Marx replied, thanking Himmler for his efforts and at the same time announced that the situation on the farm had relaxed and that he no longer needed any help. At the same time, he asked for concentration camp inmates who were working on Himmler's hunting lodge to be turned off to build an Odel pit at the Ochsenalm. Himmler replied that he was pleased that the situation at the Marx family had eased, but that he could not comply with his wish to help build the Odel mine.

In July 1944, a daughter of Marx turned to Heinrich Himmler again. In the letter, Ms. Marx pointed out that instead of the two maids promised by Himmler, they would be better served with a male worker. However, they had already tried in vain to find a prisoner of war but had not been assigned because there was no suitable camp nearby. A consultation with Marx had shown that he was now in agreement with the assignment of a male " Bible Student inmate " as a worker.

Establishment of the work command

As a result of the letter of July 1944, on October 30, 1944, a work detachment was set up at the farmer Marx's, which consisted of the "Bible researcher prisoner" Josef Krieglmaier. Krieglmaier, born in 1898, was arrested in December 1936 for “illegal” activity for the International Bible Students' Association . After seven months in prison, he was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1937 . Transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on October 17, 1944, he was transferred to the Valepp external detachment at Himmler's hunting lodge three days later and to Marx ten days later. According to the ITS Arolsen list , the external command existed until April 25, 1945, but Krieglmaier said he was not released until May 4, 1945.

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  1. ↑ See Federal Ministry of Justice : Directory of the concentration camps and their external commandos in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG No. 1507, Valepp, Miesbach district, from October 30, 1944, external command of the Dachau concentration camp.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '58.3 "  N , 11 ° 53' 39.1"  E