Otto Kloppmann

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Otto Willi Kloppmann (born January 29, 1902 in Immensen ; † October 26, 1988 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was German SS-Hauptscharführer and, as criminal secretary, head of the political department in the Majdanek and Dachau concentration camps .

biography

Kloppmann, a member of the NSDAP since 1933 and later the SS , worked for the security police from 1924 to 1936. He was then taken over as a detective assistant by the criminal police in Hanover and promoted to senior detective assistant in February 1942. From February 1942 Kloppmann was first in the POW camp in Lublin-Majdanek and from January 1943 until the closure of the Majdanek concentration camp on July 21, 1944 head of the political department. Kloppmann is said to have attended the mass execution of the Jewish prisoners at the harvest festival there , together with protective custody camp leader Anton Thumann and camp commandant Martin Gottfried Weiß . The RSHA sent him to the Dachau concentration camp on September 20, 1944, where he was also head of the political department until the Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945. Kloppmann replaced Johann Kick in this function .

After the end of the war

After the end of the war Kloppmann was interned and sentenced in February 1949 to two and a half years imprisonment by the court in Bergedorf for belonging to a criminal organization. Kloppmann did not have to start the prison sentence because he had already served internment. Kloppmann had to answer before the regional court of Oldenburg in 1950 because of his work in Dachau. Based on the information provided by the former Dachau prisoner Reimund Schnabel, the following allegations arose against Kloppmann: Participation in the transport of invalids to the Auschwitz concentration camp for gassing , carrying out intensified interrogations, taking execution orders, mistreating prisoners. However, no charges were brought because of the Amnesty Act of December 31, 1949 and misjudgments by the public prosecutor.

From 1954 Kloppmann returned to the police force in Nordenham as a police officer and remained in this position until his retirement in 1962.

In addition to other proceedings that were not charged, from 1971 Kloppmann was also investigated in the course of the Majdanek trial . Because of Kloppmann's persistent incapacity to stand trial, charges were not brought against him in 1976. For the same reason, the investigations against Kloppmann were closed in 1981 by a court in Munich. Kloppmann died on October 26, 1988 in Oldenburg (Oldb) .

literature

  • Edith Raim: West German investigations and trials on the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps , in: Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer Trials - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945-1948 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978- 3-8353-0167-2
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Edith Raim: West German investigations and processes for the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer processes - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p . 225f., P. 235
  2. ↑ Cf. Barbara Schwindt: The Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp: Functional Change in the Context of the “Final Solution” , Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, pp. 275f.
  3. ↑ Cf. Edith Raim: West German investigations and processes for the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer processes - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 225f ., P. 235
    Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 317
  4. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 317
  5. ↑ Cf. Edith Raim: West German investigations and processes for the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer processes - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 226
  6. ^ Obituary notice of the Nordwestzeitung on October 27, 1988, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Kloppmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kloppmann, Otto Willi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head of the political department in the Dachau and Majdanek concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Huge
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1988
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)