Ludwig Baumgartner

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Ludwig Baumgartner , also Lutz Baumgartner (born November 8, 1909 in Nersingen , † 1953 declared dead by the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district court ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and adjutant of the camp commandant in the Flossenbürg and Auschwitz concentration camps .

Life

After completing his school career, Baumgartner completed an apprenticeship as a banker and was then employed by the Ulm commercial bank until 1931 and then by a perfumery wholesaler.

At the beginning of February 1932 he joined the SS (SS No. 257.276) and the NSDAP ( membership number 1.497.067). After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he entered the concentration camp service in 1933 and was initially assigned to the Dachau concentration camp . From 1934 he was briefly employed in the Oranienburg concentration camp and then in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

In the spring of 1940 he moved to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he became an adjutant to the camp commandant. In 1941 he reached the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. In March 1943 he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he succeeded Robert Mulka as adjutant to camp commandant Rudolf Höß from the beginning of April 1943 until November 22, 1943 . Baumgartner signed all reports to the Reich Security Main Office that contained information about the deportees admitted to the camp or selected. His duties included "organizing the incoming transports from arrival to the murder". In personal union, he also held the post of SS court officer there. At the end of November 1943 Baumgartner was transferred back to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was again adjutant to the camp commandant. In March 1944 he became head of the protective custody camp in the Flossenbürg concentration camp and succeeded Karl Fritzsch in this function . He mistreated and shot prisoners in Flossenbürg. Baumgartner has been missing since the death marches of concentration camp prisoners from Flossenbürg in April 1945.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
  • Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp, II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death, III. Destruction, IV. Resistance, V. Epilogue, ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
  • Christa Schikorra, Jörg Skriebeleit, Bavarian Memorials Foundation: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp 1938-1945: Catalog for the permanent exhibition , Wallstein 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 35
  2. ↑ a b c Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 185
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 35
  4. ↑ Hermann Riedl, Hans-Uwe Rump: Remembering instead of forgetting: Tour of the Flossenbürg concentration camp grave and memorial , Museum-Pedagogical Center Munich, 1996, p. 13
  5. ↑ Martin Broszat, Elke Fröhlich, Falk Wiesemann: Bavaria in the Nazi era: rule and society in conflict , TA, Oldenbourg, 1977, p. 489
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgartner, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer and adjutant of the camp commandant in the Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Nersingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century