Paul Maischein

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Adhesive sheet photo by Paul Maischein. Photo taken in June 1947

Paul Maischein (born June 6, 1912 in Lampertheim , † unknown) was a German SS Rottenführer and was most recently employed as an SS medical officer in concentration camps .

Life

Maischein was a machine worker by profession. After the beginning of the Second World War at the latest , he was a member of the Waffen SS from 1939 . After the establishment of the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940, he was transferred to the guard company there. From there he was assigned to serve in the Moringen youth concentration camp in autumn 1941 . From January 1944 to the end of December 1944 he was employed as an SS medical officer in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and then in the same function in the Rottleberode satellite camp until the beginning of April 1945 . He then accompanied the evacuation march of concentration camp inmates from Rottleberode to the vicinity of Gardelegen .

After the end of the war, Maischein was interned and charged with 18 other suspects in the Dachau Dora Trial for the crimes committed in the Mittelbau concentration camp and sentenced on December 30, 1947 to a five-year prison term. After serving his sentence in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison , he took up residence in Baden-Württemberg . Maischein was questioned in the course of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and stated that he had not come into contact with the camp.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 267
  2. ↑ Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47, pp. 66ff
personal data
SURNAME Maischein, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maischein, Richard Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Rottenführer and SS medical rank
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampertheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century