Margot Drechsel
Elsa Margot Drechsel ( also Drexler, Drechsler * 17th May 1908 in Neugersdorf ; executed † 1945-1948) was a guard in concentration camps .
Before her service as an SS overseer, she worked as an office worker in Berlin . She was trained as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Her trainers were Johanna Langefeld and Dorothea Binz . On April 27, 1942, she became a guard in Auschwitz concentration camp , and since November 1944 she has been employed in Flossenbürg concentration camp . She rose from the rank of overseer to the rank of report leader.
It was described by contemporary witnesses as extremely brutal. It was particularly feared by female prisoners. She abused prisoners to the point of death and was involved in the selection of people for the gas chamber .
After the end of the war
In 1945 she was recognized by former prisoners on the country road from Pirna to Bautzen and handed over to the Soviet military police . She was sentenced to death and hanged in Bautzen prison .
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 . P. 97.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drechsel, Margot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drechsel, Elsa Margot; Drexler, Margot; Wood turner, Margot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German guard in concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neugersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1945 and 1948 |