Maximilian List

Maximilian List (also Max List; born February 9, 1910 in Munich , † after 1980 near Hamburg ) was a German architect and SS-Hauptsturmführer .

List joined the NSDAP and SS in 1930 . He was the command leader of the Alderney concentration camp on the British Channel Island of Alderney , which the Wehrmacht had occupied in June 1940. The 1,000 prisoners of the Neuengamme subcamp were brought to the so-called Sylt camp on March 3, 1943 , a barrack camp near the airfield. As early as July 1943, he had to transport 200 of his subordinate camp inmates back to the Neuengamme main camp, as they were no longer able to work due to poor nutrition and heavy physical work, for which he was also responsible. Since several prisoners fled on this return transport, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him and the leader of the SS guards, Kurt Klebeck , which were discontinued in October 1943. He was also given command of another camp of the Todt Organization , the so-called Norderney camp on the island of Alderney. In March 1944 he was replaced by SS-Obersturmführer Georg Braun .

After the end of the war Maximilian List came into the public eye through British press publications, but he was not brought to justice until his death in the 1980s, although Otto Spehr, a prisoner who was on the island of Alderney between June 1943 and June 1944, testified that List issued execution orders.

literature

• Karola Fings : Alderney (SS Construction Brigade I). In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 347ff
• Frederick Cohen: The Jews in the Channel Islands during the German Occupations: 1940-1945. Jersey Heritage Trust. 2nd edition Jersey 2000 ( PDF )
• Susanne Frömel: The concentration camp in the English Channel. In: mare . No. 69, August 2008, pp. 41–51 ( excerpt )

Web links

• The Jews in the Channel Islands During the German Occupation 1940-1945, by Frederick Cohen, President of the Jersey Jewish Congregation. On page 111 there is a photo of Maximilian List ( memento from December 17, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karola Fings: Alderney (SS construction brigade). In: Wolfgang Benz & Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Vol. 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. Beck, Munich 2007, p. 348.
2. ^ Frederick Cohen: The Jews in the Channel Islands During the German Occupations. 1940-1945. 2nd ed. Jersey Heritage Trust, Jersey 2000, p. 150