Kurt Heinrich (SS member)
Richard Kurt Heinrich (born May 23, 1911 in Zittau ; † after 1948) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and employed as an adjutant to the camp commandant in the Vaivara and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps.
Life
Heinrich had been a member of the SS since 1933 and of the NSDAP since 1937 . Between 1937 and 1942 Heinrich was deployed as a block and command leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp . From there he was probably transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Heinrich was probably already adjutant to camp commandant Hans Aumeier in the Vaivara concentration camp from September 1943 until the summer of 1944. From November 1944 to early February 1945 Heinrich was also adjutant to camp commandant Otto Förschner in the Mittelbau concentration camp. After that he is said to have been quartermaster in Mysen until the end of the war .
After the end of the Second World War , Heinrich was interned and charged with 18 other suspects in the Dachau Dora trial for the crimes committed in the Mittelbau concentration camp. Like three other defendants, Heinrich was acquitted on December 30, 1947. In 1948, Heinrich was sentenced to two years and ten months imprisonment in 1948. As the internment detention was taken into account, Heinrich did not have to serve the prison sentence. Nothing is known about his further life.
literature
- Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-439-0 .
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| SURNAME | Heinrich, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich, Richard Kurt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Obersturmführer and adjutant in the Mittelbau and Vaivara concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zittau |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1948 |