Luise Danz
Luise Helene Elisabeth Danz (born December 11, 1917 in Walldorf ; † 2009 ) was a guard in various concentration camps .
biography
After finishing elementary school, Danz worked as a housemaid in a bakery in Brandenburg. In 1940 she moved back to her parents in Schmalkalden and began training at the post office. During a vacation, she met the concentration camp doctor Franz von Bodmann and started a relationship with him. After completing her postal apprenticeship, Danz was signed up by the employment office as a concentration camp guard in 1943. Possibly she forced this service obligation to be with her partner von Bodmann. From March 1, 1943, she completed a three-week course as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp on March 22, 1943 . There she supervised work details in the tailor's shop, the camp kitchen, the gardening shop and in the clothing store in the women's camp. In the course of the evacuation of the Majdanek concentration camp, Danz was transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp at the end of April 1944 . After the Plaszow concentration camp was cleared, Danz was transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in September or October 1944 , where he was in command of the laundry and led the leather command. After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, she was transferred to the Malchow subcamp in Ravensbrück in January 1945 . There she acted as a supervisor until the beginning of May 1945. In Malchow, 900 female prisoners had to work in the local explosives factory of Gesellschaft mbH for the recycling of chemical products ( chemical recycling ).
According to statements made by surviving inmates in the various camps, Danz is said to have developed from a relatively sociable guard to a sadist. She allegedly abused female inmates severely, for example with her whip or by beating. In addition, she is said to have hanged Russian prisoner women and always ended hour-long roll calls with deaths.
After the war she was able to go into hiding for a short time. Danz was arrested on June 1, 1945 in Lützow and stood before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland from November 24, 1947 to December 22, 1947 during the Auschwitz trial in Kraków . There she was charged with belonging to a criminal organization and for mistreating female inmates. On December 22, 1947, she was sentenced to life imprisonment , which she served in Poland until her release in 1956.
After her return to Germany, Danz lived inconspicuously and was only brought to trial again in Germany in 1996, as she is said to have kicked a young woman in the Malchow women's camp towards the end of the war. This hearing is said to have been stopped because, according to a medical expert Danz, the rigors of the process should not be expected due to age reasons.
literature
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2 .
- Gisela Bock : Genocide and Gender - Jewish Women in the National Socialist Camp System , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37730-6 .
- Simone Erpel (Ed.): In the wake of the SS: Overseers of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-19-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Auschwitz concentration camp 1942–1945 and the time of the death marches 1944/45 edited by Andrea Rudorff, page 587 in the Google book search
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Danz, Luise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Danz, Luise Helene Elisabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concentration camp guard in concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Walldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2009 |