Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller

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Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller (born January 31, 1896 in Kiel , † after January 1945, pronounced dead in 1953 by the Hohenlimburg District Court ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Auschwitz .

Life

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Müller, a trade clerk by profession, joined the SS (SS No. 179.667) in October 1933 and the NSDAP ( membership number 4,486,232) on May 1, 1937. After the beginning of the Second World War , at the latest , he was deployed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1939 and in the administration department in the Flossenbürg concentration camp from 1940 .

In April 1942 he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was assigned to the 1st Guard Company until June 1942. From July 1942 to October 1943 he was a company commander in the Second Guard Company in the main camp and at the same time he was the head of the protective custody camp of the women's camp in the main camp, which was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1942 . In the women's camp he cooperated with the superintendent Johanna Langefeld and from October 1942 with Maria Mandl . In August 1943 he was replaced by Franz Hössler as head of the protective custody camp in the women's camp . In November 1943 he became company commander of the 1st and 2nd guard companies in the Monowitz concentration camp, which were also responsible for guarding the Golleschau and Jawischowitz satellite camps . On January 30, 1944, he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords. In September 1944 he took over the management of the newly founded Neustadt OS subcamp , a weaving mill in which 400 female prisoners had to do forced labor, where he worked until the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945.

literature

  • 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, 5 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 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 290f.
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 290f.
  3. ↑ a b Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Volume I: Structure and Structure of the Camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 231f.
  4. ↑ Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Volume I: Structure and Structure of the Camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 236
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Paul Heinrich Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH after January 1945