Max Meyr (SS member)

Max Meyr (born July 30, 1915 in Nördlingen ; † after 1945) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and first head of the site administration in Auschwitz .

Life

Max Meyr was a commercial employee. He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,426,588) in early May 1937 and the SS (SS number 289,455) in April 1939 . Initially, he worked for the War Pay Office of the Inspection of the Concentration Camps (IKL) in Oranienburg .

After the establishment of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Meyr was transferred from the ICL to the newly established Auschwitz concentration camp at the beginning of June 1940, where he became the first head of the site administration. After only four months, he was replaced in this position by Rudolf Wagner on October 1, 1940 , and then moved to the headquarters staff in the Neuengamme concentration camp . According to the camp commandant Rudolf Höß , Meyr was "a complete idiot". With the Waffen-SS he reached the rank of SS-Obersturmführer in 1942.

After the end of the Second World War he took up residence in Lower Saxony.

literature

• Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. From the Polish by Jochen August. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim 1999, ISBN 83-85047-76-X (5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp; II. The prisoners - living conditions, work and death; III. Extermination; IV. Resistance; V. . Epilogue).
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 278