Personnel in Buchenwald concentration camp
The staff at the Buchenwald concentration camp worked for the Nazi era in the Buchenwald concentration camp . The personnel distribution was uniformly prescribed for the concentration camps by the inspection of the concentration camps (IKL) . In Buchenwald Concentration Camp there were five departments that performed different camp-related tasks. The structure of the concentration camps in the structure of the departments, however, was based on the size of the concentration camp. Thus, not all concentration camps had this compilation of departments listed for the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Department I: Headquarters
The command office was the highest authority; the camp commandant was in command of all SS personnel. The adjutants acted to support the camp commanders .
Camp commanders
Camp commandant | time |
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Karl Otto Koch | July 1937 to December 1941 |
Hermann Pister | January 1942 to April 1945 |
Adjutants
Adjutants | time |
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Hartwig Block | 1937 |
Johannes Wellershaus | 1937 |
Hans Hüttig | 1938 to 1939 |
Hermann Hackmann | 1939 to 1940 |
Heinz Büngeler | January 1941 to June 1942 |
Hans-Theodor Schmidt | September 1942 to April 1945 |
Other staff in the Adjutantur department in Buchenwald concentration camp: Martin Sommer , Gustav Heigel , Hermann Helbig , Wolfgang Otto , Emil Pleissner ,
Department II: Political Department (Camp Gestapo)
The tasks of the Political Department essentially comprised the fight against the camp resistance movement, the prevention of escapes and contact with the outside world, the preparation and administration of prisoner files as well as the correspondence with the Gestapo , the criminal police and the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
Head of the Political Department
Surname | time |
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Criminal Secretary Wilhelm Frerichs | 1937 to 1941 |
Criminal Secretary Walter Serno | 1941 to April 1945 |
Other staff in the Political Department of Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Hubert Leclaire
Department III: Management of protective custody camps
The head of the protective custody camp management was also the commandant's deputy. As a rule, he conducted official correspondence with superordinate and subordinate departments. Report leaders, block leaders and command leaders were subordinate to him. They guarded the forced labor inside the camp and in the external detachments and camps. They had authority over functionaries and inmates.
Surname | function | Period |
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Arthur Rödl | 1. Protective custody camp leader | August 1937 to 1940 |
Hermann Florstedt | 1. Protective custody camp leader | October 1940 to 1942 |
Max Schobert | 1. Protective custody camp leader | 1942 to April 1945 |
Jakob Weiseborn | 2. Protective custody camp leader | August 1937 to April 1938 |
Hans Hüttig | 2. Protective custody camp leader | 1938 to 1939 |
Wolfgang Plaul | 2. Protective custody camp leader | |
Max Schobert | 2. Protective custody camp leader | January 1940 to 1942 |
Erich Gust | 2. Protective custody camp leader | 1942 to 1944 |
Hans Merbach | 2. Protective custody camp leader | February 1945 to April 1945 |
Other personnel in the department of protective custody camp management in Buchenwald concentration camp: Josef Kestel , Helmut Roscher , Arnold Strippel
Department III / E: Labor deployment
The labor deployment department was headed by the labor deployment leader. The Labor Service Leader, who reports directly to the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, was responsible for dividing up the prisoner commands as well as assigning them to civil companies.
Surname | time |
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Philipp Grimm | October 1940 to the end of November 1942 |
Albert Schwartz | October 1942 to April 1945 |
Other staff in the Labor Deployment Department in Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Franz Zinecker
Department IV: Administration (SS site administration)
At the head was the SS administrator . Department IV regulated the supply of clothing and food. The confiscated property of the inmates was administered here.
Surname | Period |
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Christian Mohr | 1937 |
Karl Weichseldorfer | 1937 to 1942 |
Otto Barnewald | 1942 to April 1945 |
Department V: Medical Services (on-site doctor)
Department V ( medical services ) included the concentration camp doctors and SS medical ranks from the infirmary. After the murder of prisoners, the camp and SS on-site doctor issued death certificates with a natural cause of death.
Site doctor
Surname | Period |
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Werner Kirchert | 1937 to 1938 |
Hans Schlosser | February 1939 to June 1939 |
Gustav Busse | 1939 to summer 1941 |
Waldemar Hoven | July 1942 to September 1943 |
Gerhard Schiedlausky | October 1943 to April 1945 |
Other staff in the medical service department in Buchenwald concentration camp:
- Camp doctors: Heinrich Plaza , Erwin Ding-Schuler , Erich Wagner , August Bender , Hans Eisele , Werner Greunuss , Carl Eisen, Ludwig Ehrsam, Herbert Gräff, Heinz Gudacker, Aribert Heim , Peter Hofer, Konrad Köbrich, Richard Krieger, Viktor Lewe, Karl -Werner Maaßen , Hans Müller, Heinz Neumann, Ralf Rogge, Werner Rohde , Werner Stephan,
- Warehouse dentists : Georg Coldewey , Helmut Johannsen , Hans Fischer, Gerhard Palfer, Walter Pongs , Paul Reutter
- SS medical ranks: Friedrich Karl Wilhelm
Guard company Buchenwald concentration camp
The troops formed the actual guards of the concentration camp. The guard company was responsible for the external security of the concentration camp, and was partly also deployed inside the concentration camp.
Commander of the SS-Totenkopfsturmbann Buchenwald
Surname | Period |
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Paul Kroeger | ? |
Arnold Büscher | ? |
Otto Foerschner | Spring 1942 to August 1943 |
Guido Reimer | September 1943 to autumn 1944 |
Officer in the Wehrmacht | after autumn 1944 |
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