Karl Heger

Acknowledgment of receipt for food parcels signed by Heger

Karl Heger (also Karlo Heger , actually Dragutin Heger ; born September 30, 1906 in Osijek , Austria-Hungary ; † June 27, 1996 in Mariazell ) was a member of the National Socialist squadron of the German team , an armed formation of the Yugoslav Germans during the Second World War .

As such, despite his low rank ( private ), Heger was the commandant of the Loborgrad concentration camp set up for women and children in the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH). His brother Waldemar Heger was the camp's deputy .

The Loborgrad concentration camp housed mainly Serb women and Jews , including pregnant women, as well as their children and babies. Heger is said to have killed a child there with a rifle butt who had bumped into him.

literature

Carl Bethke: (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900–1945 - Chapter 5.6: Ethnic Germans as security guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941–1942) , Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 319.
↑ Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900-1945 - ethnic Germans as security guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941-1942) , p. 307, Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 .
↑ Carl Bethke: (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900–1945 - Chapter 5.6: Volksdeutsche as guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941–1942) , p. 309, Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643- 11754-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heger, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heger, Dragutin (real name); Heger, Karlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav concentration camp commandant
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osijek , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1996
Place of death	Mariazell , Austria

[1] Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 319.

[2] Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900-1945 - ethnic Germans as security guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941-1942) , p. 307, Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 .

[Loborgrad-3] Carl Bethke: (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900–1945 - Chapter 5.6: Volksdeutsche as guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941–1942) , p. 309, Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643- 11754-0 .