Max Schobert

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Max Schobert in April 1947

Max Johann Markus Schobert (born December 25, 1904 in Würzburg , †  November 19, 1948 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and first protective custody camp leader in Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Schobert, son of an office servant, worked as a locksmith in mechanical engineering from 1919. Between 1925 and 1927 he attended the mechanical engineering school in Würzburg and then worked as a machinist until 1934 with periods of unemployment. Schobert joined the NSDAP (membership number 317.486) and SS (membership number 3.531) in 1932 . After changing to the SS-Totenkopfverband, he was part of the camp team of the Dachau concentration camp from 1934 to 1938 , where he was employed as a block leader and as a command officer of the effects room. He then worked in the Flossenbürg concentration camp until the end of 1939 , where he was in charge of the barrack construction work group.

From January 1940 to April 11, 1945, Schobert acted initially as the second and from 1942 as the first protective custody camp leader and deputy camp commandant in the Buchenwald concentration camp. There Schobert was primarily responsible for the executions of Command 99 in the horse stable; He is said to have personally attended at least 300 executions. After the Buchenwald concentration camp was partially evacuated, Schobert was briefly deployed to the Dachau concentration camp as the first protective custody camp leader towards the end of the war on April 23, 1945 and replaced Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert at this post .

Schobert fled to Austria at the end of April 1945 and was arrested by members of the US Army in May 1945 . Together with Hans-Theodor Schmidt , Hans Merbach , Albert Schwartz , August Bender and Otto Barnewald , who were also part of the Buchenwald concentration camp staff, Schobert was interned in the US prisoner-of-war camp in Bad Aibling .

As part of the Dachau trials , Schobert was charged with 30 other accused in the main Buchenwald trial. Schobert was accused of mistreating and killing Allied prisoners. Witness statements weighed heavily on Schobert, for example he is said to have chased his dog on inmates and hit inmates with his whip. On August 14, 1947, Schobert was sentenced to death by hanging . Despite several appeals for clemency, Schobert was executed on November 19, 1948 in the Landsberg war crimes prison .

literature

  • Buchenwald main trial: Deputy Judge Advocate's Office 7708 War Crimes Group European Command APO 407: (United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. - Case 000-50-9), November 1947 Original document in English (PDF file )
  • Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89244-222-6 .
  • Eugen Kogon : The SS state . The system of the German concentration camps ; Frechen: Komet, 2000; ISBN 3-89836-107-1 (= Munich: Heyne, 1995 31 ; ISBN 3-453-02978-X ; Reinbek near Hamburg: Kindler, 1974)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937 - 1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Göttingen 1999, p. 309
personal data
SURNAME Schobert, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schobert, Max Johann Markus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protective custody camp leader in Buchenwald concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1948
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison