Otto Brinkmann
Otto Georg Werner Brinkmann (born July 5, 1910 in Osnabrück , † February 5, 1985 in Enger ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and was employed as a report leader in the Neuengamme concentration camp , the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Dora labor camp .
Life
Since 1934 Brinkmann served in several concentration camps with the respective camp SS. From 1939 he was a report leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp (1939–1941), the Neuengamme concentration camp (1941–1944) and from January 1944 to October 1944 in the Dora labor camp.
From October 1944 to April 1945, Brinkmann was the head of the protective custody camp in the Ellrich-Juliushütte satellite camp of the Mittelbau concentration camp. Brinkmann, who exchanged the political prisoner functionaries for criminal functionary prisoners, was regarded by the prisoners as a "horror of the camp". By order of Brinkmann, a storage bunker was built in the Ellrich-Juliushütte satellite camp, and prisoners were severely punished and mistreated under his responsibility. Brinkmann himself had a prisoner who was hungry and cut meat from the corpse of a deceased inmate and ate it, eat the testicles of a dead inmate in front of several witnesses. He handed them salt and pepper and then had the “ cannibals ” beat to death by inmates. Brinkmann was also involved in interrogations of prisoners in the Mittelbau concentration camp prison from January 1945 to April 1945, reporting to the Gestapo member Ernst Sander . In the course of clearing the Mittelbauer camps in April 1945, he accompanied an evacuation transport to the Ravensbrück concentration camp .
After the end of the war, Brinkmann was indicted with 18 other accused in the Dachau Dora Trial , which took place as part of the Dachau Trials from August 7, 1947 to December 30, 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. On May 9, 1958, the last four prisoners were released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison , including three convicts from the Einsatzgruppen trial and Brinkmann. Nothing is known about Brinkmann's further life.
literature
- Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47 (English, PDF file, 28.1 MB)
- 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, ISBN 978-3-8353-0118-4 .
- Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-439-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jens Christian Wagner: Ellrich-Juliushütte subcamp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 305.
- ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 314f.
- ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 346
- ↑ Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47, p. 51
- ↑ Norbert Frei: Politics of the Past . Beck, Munich 1996, p. 138
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinkmann, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brinkmann, Otto Georg Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concentration camp guard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1985 |
| Place of death | Tighter |