Max Sell

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Maximilian Sell , called Max Sell (born January 8, 1893 in Kiel ; † declared dead on October 2, 1950 by the Kiel District Court ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and labor leader in concentration camps .

Life

Sell ​​was a businessman by profession. He took part continuously in World War I and was discharged from the German army in 1919.

Sell ​​joined the NSDAP ( membership number 704.095) in early November 1931 and the SS (SS number 35.889) in early April 1932 . After the beginning of the Second World War , Sell was assigned to the Waffen SS . From February 1942 he was a labor leader in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and was transferred from there to Auschwitz at the end of 1942 , where he was initially deputy labor leader under Heinrich Schwarz in the main camp of Auschwitz . In August 1943 he succeeded Schwarz, who was now head of the protective custody camp in the main camp, as a labor deployment leader and remained in this position until January 1945. Sell was u. a. involved in the selection of prisoners, the incapacitated prisoners were murdered in the gas chamber . He gave out additional rations in the form of alcohol and cigarettes for the SS men working in the crematoria. According to Hermann Langbein , Sell should have done everything "to accelerate the extermination machine". Sell ​​also abused prisoners. On January 30, 1944, he was awarded the War Merit Cross II. Class with Swords and promoted to SS-Obersturmführer in the same year .

After the "evacuation" of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he became a labor officer in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in February 1945 . In April 1945 his track is lost.

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 .
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, five volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 375
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. Ein Personenlexikon , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 375 and State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (Ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports , Munich 1995, p. 299
  3. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports , Munich 1995, p. 299
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 375
  5. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner (ed.): Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp 1943-1945 Accompanying volume for the permanent exhibition in the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. Wallstein, Göttingen, 2007, p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Sell, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sell, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leaders and labor leaders in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1950