Lotte Toberentz

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Lotte Maria Charlotte Toberentz (born May 27, 1900 in Zerbst / Anhalt ; † after January 1964) was a German criminal magistrate in the National Socialist German Reich , employee in the "Reich Central Office for Combating Juvenile Crime" and head of the (only) SS girls' concentration camp in Uckermark .

Life

Lotte Toberentz, a police officer by profession, joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,917,135) in early May 1937. From the beginning of April 1930 to August 1940 she was employed by the female criminal police in the Berlin police department at Alexanderplatz . Then she worked in the "Reich Central Office for Combating Juvenile Crime" under Friederike Wieking in the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA). Together with Johanna Braach , Toberentz visited various concentration camps in 1941 for information. From May 1942 until its dissolution in April 1945, Toberentz acted as head of the Uckermark girls' camp. Johanna Braach was her deputy during this period. As a woman, Toberentz was formally subordinate to the camp commandant of the Ravensbrück concentration camp , but in fact exercised the management of the camp. In June 1942 the first 70 girls, accompanied by Toberentz, arrived at the camp. Around 1000 girls and young women are said to have been interned in the Uckermark concentration camp at the beginning of 1945.

In the third Ravensbrück trial , also known as the “Uckermark trial” (April 14-27, 1948), Toberentz and Braach were indicted together with three other female members of the SS entourage under British military jurisdiction in the Hamburg Curiohaus . The accused were charged with the following:

  1. Abuse of female Allied prisoners in the Uckermark girls' camp from May 1942 to April 1945
  2. Participation in the selection of female Allied prisoners for the gas chamber from May 1942 to April 1945 in the Uckermark girls' camp
  3. Abuse of female Allied prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1944 to April 1945
  4. Participation in selections of female Allied prisoners for the gas chamber in the period from May 1942 to April 1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp

Toberentz's charge included items one and three. For lack of evidence, she, like Braach, was acquitted on April 26, 1948 . Since the charges only included crimes against Allied nationals and Toberentz in the girls' camp were subject to German “unadjusted girls and young women” whose fate was not the subject of the trial, the acquittal was ultimately made.

Toberentz then returned to a leading position in the West German criminal police. Further investigations and interrogations in the 1950s and 1960s were unsuccessful. On January 13, 1964, Toberentz was interrogated by officials from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden and denied that children had also been interned in Uckermark. Nothing is known about her further life.

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