Ludwig Plagge

Ludwig Plagge (born January 13, 1910 in Landesbergen , † January 24, 1948 in Krakow ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer of the SS-Totenkopfverband in several concentration camps and convicted war criminals .

Life

Plagge, a farmer by profession, joined the NSDAP in 1931 and the SS in 1934 (SS No. 270.620). Plagge was married and had a daughter born in 1943.
After his first activities in the Esterwegen concentration camp, from November 1939 to the end of June 1940 he completed a "qualifying" course for work with the Totenkopf SS in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In July 1940 he was one of the first SS guards to be transferred to the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp (main camp) , where he initially acted as a block leader and later as a command leader . At times he was also active in the political department of the camp (Camp Gestapo). As Block Leader of Block 11 , he was involved in the "test gassing" by Zyklon B in 1941 , during which Soviet prisoners of war were killed.

From 1942 Plagge was in Auschwitz-Birkenau used, where he in 1943, among others in the " Gypsy camp " Rapportführer was - that is, he had an accurate view of all incoming and outgoing messages of the concentration camp prisoners. After October 1943, Plagge, meanwhile promoted to SS-Oberscharführer, was deployed in the Majdanek concentration camp , which at that time was also used as an extermination / death camp. In the course of 1944 he was transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , where he worked as a " camp leader " in the Colosseum subcamp in Regensburg almost until the end of the war .

Plagge was arrested on May 10, 1945 and extradited to the Polish judiciary in early March 1947. In Auschwitz Trial before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland Plagge December 22, 1947 was posted to death by the strand convicted. He was born on January 24, 1948 executed .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0
• Walter Winter : Winter Time: Memoirs of a German Sinto who Survived Auschwitz , University of Hertfordshire, 2004, ISBN 1902806387
• Tadeusz Sobolewicz: Back from Hell. On the arbitrariness of survival in the concentration camp , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-596-14179-1
• Anja Tuckermann (ed.): "Don't think we'll stay here!" The life story of Sinto Hugo Höllenreiner. , Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-446-20648-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 317.