Manne Saathoff

Manne Saathoff (born May 12, 1914 in Akelsbarg ; † February 25, 1948 in Vorkuta labor camp ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and block leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Manne Saathoff was the son of the farmer Menno Saathoff and his wife Margareta. After finishing primary school in 1928, he worked on his father's farm until 1934.

In October 1934 he became a member of the SS . From 1934 to 1936 he was a member of the guards at the Esterwegen concentration camp . On October 20, 1936, Saathoff was drafted into the military for two years. Then he came back to the SS-Totenkopfverband and trained recruits at the Berlin-Adelsdorf location. On July 15, 1939, he was transferred to the command headquarters of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he worked as a block leader. From March 1941 he was employed in the cell construction of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Here he punished numerous prisoners with lashes on the beating block. In autumn 1941 he took part in the mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war.

In January 1943 he was transferred to the newly established Herzogenbusch concentration camp in the occupied Netherlands . Saathoff was used here as a report leader. Then commanded him Inspektion in the Buchenwald concentration camp . From here he was sent to the central warehouse in Cologne-Deutz. In addition to its brutality, the prisoners particularly noticed the considerable alcohol consumption of their camp leader.

At the end of the war he served in an artillery unit of the SS division “Das Reich” in Passau , where he was taken prisoner by the Americans. The Americans handed it over to the Soviet authorities. Subsequently, Saathoff was indicted in a Soviet military tribunal in the Sachsenhausen trial and sentenced on October 31, 1947 to life imprisonment with forced labor. In February 1948 he died in the Vorkuta camp , where he was serving his sentence.

literature

Günter Morsch (Ed.): The concentration camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86331-403-3

Individual evidence

^ Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 328.
^ ^A ^b ^c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 329.
^ ^A ^b ^c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 330.

personal data
SURNAME	Saathoff, man
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS member and concentration camp block leader
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Akelsbarg
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1948
Place of death	Vorkuta labor camp

[:1-1] Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 328.

[:2-2] A ^b ^c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 329.

[Morsch-3] A ^b ^c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 330.