Otto Boehm

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Otto Wilhelm Böhm (born July 11, 1890 in Heilbronn , † December 23, 1964 in Klingenmünster ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and Rapportführer in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Otto Böhm was the son of a gendarmerie officer. He first attended elementary school and later a middle school, which he left in 1904 without a degree. He then did an apprenticeship as a bookbinder and did his military service from 1910 to 1912. He then worked as a bookbinder in Geneva . In 1914 he returned to Germany and volunteered as a war volunteer. In 1919 he moved to Berlin and worked as a sales representative in the food industry.

In October 1932 Böhm joined the NSDAP and the General SS . In 1933 he was given a position as a clerk at the German Labor Front . From October 1941 he was employed as a guard train leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In the summer of 1943 he was taken over to the commandant's staff and appointed report leader. In this function he organized the penal system and carried out executions. Several prisoners reported abuse and abuse and Bohm's involvement in several murders and mass murders in the camp. But Böhm was also guilty of murder in many cases. In February 1945, he shot at least thirty Jewish prisoners from the satellite camp Lieberose , who had come in an evacuation march to Sachsenhausen. At the end of April 1945, Böhm accompanied the Sachsenhausen prisoners' death march northwards as a guard .

After the end of the war he was briefly captured by the Americans and then settled with his family in Oberlahnstein , where he worked as a magazine advertiser. In April 1957, he came into custody . On October 15, 1960, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Düsseldorf Regional Court for 41 murder cases and for accessory to murder . In the following year, Böhm was exempted from imprisonment due to illness, but was arrested again in 1962 after a medical examination. At the beginning of December 1964, Böhm was transferred to a mental hospital, where he died on December 23rd.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 216.
  2. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 217.
  3. ^ Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Work-sharing perpetrators in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 218.
  4. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606 , p. 532.
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhm, Otto Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer (Sachsenhausen concentration camp)
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1964
Place of death Klingenmünster