Rochlitz subcamp

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The Rochlitz satellite camp (also: Rochlitz external command ) near Chemnitz existed for six months, from September 14, 1944 to March 28, 1945. The camp was subordinate to the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Mechanik GmbH Rochlitz

1938 originated in Rochlitz the Mechanik GmbH as a subsidiary of Pittler tool Maschinenfabrik AG Leipzig . As a supplier, it manufactured parts for aircraft production. Her supervisory board chief was Hermann Josef Abs , who was also on the supervisory board of IG Farben and, as a board member of Deutsche Bank, was entrusted with the Aryanization of Jewish assets.

Rochlitz subcamp

Mechanik GmbH operated a satellite concentration camp in Rochlitz from September 1944. The SS had approved concentration camp prisoners for forced labor in the armaments factory . There were 400 women prisoners in the concentration camp. From September 15, 1944, Marianne Essmann (also written: Eßmann) was the guard of the subcamp. She had previously worked as an office worker at Mechanik GmbH and, like other employees, was trained as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

The slave laborers of the external command were initially housed in different locations until the new camp was built. The usual concentration camp regulations applied in the camp . The prisoners came from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps . Former prisoners described the camp conditions as "bearable compared to Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen". Medicines, medical supplies and food were very scarce.

Due to the increasing bombing in the Saxon area, the SS decided to vacate the satellite camp in March 1945. The inmates were sent on evacuation marches on foot .

literature

  • Pascal Cziborra: Women in the concentration camp. Possibilities and limits of historical research using the example of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and its satellite camps. Laurel Publishing House, 2010.
  • Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder (eds.): Flossenbürg: the Flossenbürg concentration camp and its satellite camps. Beck-Verlag, 2007.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG , Rochlitz satellite camp = no. 1236
  2. ↑ Hermann Josef Abs : "We have started to throw off low-performing workers", spiegel.de
  3. ^ Rochlitz satellite camp. Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ See also: Training as an overseer in Ravensbrück