Philipp Grimm (SS member)

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Philipp Grimm (born April 1, 1909 in Zwiesel , † April 16, 1984 in Bayreuth ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and employed as a labor leader in the Buchenwald , Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme concentration camps .

Life

After his school career, Grimm completed an apprenticeship as a baker and confectioner, which he completed in 1927. He then went on to work as a trainee in a Nuremberg paper mill and then did a commercial apprenticeship, which he finished in 1931. He then worked briefly as a car salesman and in 1932 took over his parents' “Weinstube Grimm” in Bayreuth.

Grimm joined the NSDAP in 1930 and the SS in 1933 . From 1937 he worked full-time in the SS administration. In 1939, Grimm received an administration-specific training at the SS administration school in Berlin and then became treasurer and deputy administration manager for an SS skull standard.

From the beginning of October 1940 Grimm was first employed as housekeeper in the Buchenwald concentration camp and then until the end of November 1942 as the labor deployment leader there. Then Grimm was a labor leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and then the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office , Office Group D , Office II, active. Furthermore, he was then a member of the command staff of the Plaszow concentration camp . From July 1944 to March 1945 Grimm acted as a labor leader in the Neuengamme concentration camp. From the end of 1944, the Neuengamme Labor Deployment Department no longer placed any concentration camp inmates in satellite camps : “In the introduction, Mr Grimm explained that it would be disadvantageous if we would hand over the inmates who were with us to Neuengamme and get appropriate replacement workers from there for the yeast factory as the labor material currently available in Neuengamme is very poor. Most of the prisoners in Neuengamme were unable to work because of illness. "

After the end of the war, Grimm was arrested and charged with 30 other accused as part of the Dachau trials in the main Buchenwald trial. Grimm was accused of ill-treating Allied prisoners and of drawing up a list of names of incapacitated prisoners for the purpose of killing. On August 14, 1947, Grimm was sentenced to death by hanging . The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Grimm was released on February 12, 1954 from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison and died in Bayreuth in April 1984 after an inconspicuous life.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Accompanying volume for the permanent historical exhibition. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-222-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Accompanying volume for the permanent historical exhibition. Göttingen 1999, p. 308
  2. ↑ Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Accompanying volume for the permanent historical exhibition. Göttingen 1999, p. 53f
  3. ↑ Internal communication from the commercial department of the Phrix-Werk subcamp Wittenberge of January 13, 1945, quoted from: Hermann Kaienburg : The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938–1945. Dietz, Bonn 1997
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German labor leader in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiesel
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1984
Place of death Bayreuth