Kurt Klipp

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Kurt clip (* 19th September 1907 in Cologne , † 2. May 1945 in Bergen-Belsen) was a German obersturmführer that the era of National Socialism , among other camp leader of the sub-camp Blechhammer of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the protective custody camp in Bergen-Belsen and Majdanek concentration camp was.

Life

The merchant joined the Schutzstaffel in 1936 (SS no. 293.197) and in 1937 the NSDAP (membership no. 5,020,763) . After completing a training course in the Dachau concentration camp for service with the camp SS, Klipp was transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in May 1938 , where he took over the deputy head of the political department and became head of the crematorium . During the German occupation of Poland in World War II , he moved to the Majdanek concentration camp at the end of October 1941 , where, after the political department had been set up, he took over its management. From mid-June 1942 he was head of the protective custody camp in Majdanek concentration camp. After an SS leadership course in May 1943, he became camp manager of the forced labor camp at the Heidelager SS military training area , which was temporarily run as a concentration camp in 1942/43 .

After this camp was closed, he was transferred to Auschwitz, where in 1944 he initially headed the so-called “quarantine camp ” in Auschwitz-Birkenau . From November 9, 1944 until the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, he was in personal union leader of the 7th company of the SS-Totenkopfsturmbann KL Auschwitz III, which was deployed in sub-camps of the Monowitz concentration camp , and camp manager in the Blechhammer concentration camp. From Blechhammer he led the death march on January 20, 1945 , during which about 800 concentration camp prisoners were murdered by SS men. From February to April 1945, he was head of the protective custody camp in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. During this time he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer, his highest SS rank. After the liberation of this concentration camp by British troops in mid-April 1945, he was captured there. Shortly before the end of the war , Klipp died “on May 2, 1945 in a reserve hospital of typhus ”.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
  • Stefan Hördler: Order and inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war. Diss. Humboldt University 2014, Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1404-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 221
  2. ↑ Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war , Göttingen 2015, p. 50
  3. ↑ Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war , Göttingen 2015, p. 51
  4. ↑ Stefan Hördler: Order and Inferno: the concentration camp system in the last year of the war , Göttingen 2015, p. 51
  5. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: Blechhammer (Blachownia) . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Clip, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen