Michael Körner (SS member)
Michael Körner (born March 20, 1914 in Fürstenhof, Middle Franconia ; † February 15, 1948 in Vorkuta ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and deputy protective custody camp leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
Life
In 1933 he joined the SA and the NSDAP . Two years later he became a member of the SS . From 1943 on, Körner was the third protective custody camp leader in the main camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After the end of the Second World War , Körner was taken prisoner by the Soviets . Körner was charged as a war criminal with 15 other suspects in the Sachsenhausen trial for participating in the crimes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before a Soviet military court. On October 31, 1947, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with compulsory hard labor . He was then taken to the Vorkuta des Gulag labor camp , where he died on February 15, 1948.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Morsch (Ed.): The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86331-403-3 , p. 360.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körner, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Obersturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fürstenhof, Middle Franconia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1948 |
| Place of death | Vorkuta |