Richard Bugdalle

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Richard Bugdalle (born September 11, 1907 in Pomßen ; † June 27, 1982 in Munich ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer , block leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and convicted war criminal .

Life

Richard Bugdalle was the son of a forest worker . According to later statements, he was a poor student, and he also found it difficult to train as a wagon builder . After completing the journeyman's examination, he couldn't find any jobs in the learned profession for years, which is why he made his way as a worker in a quarry.

In 1931 he joined the NSDAP and the SS . From 1933 he worked for the SS-Sonderkommando Sachsen in Dresden . At the end of 1934 he joined the security team at Sachsenburg concentration camp . From there he moved to the Sachsenburg command headquarters in December 1936. A few months later he was already employed as a block leader and head of various work units.

In 1937 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There he called out inmates if they felt they were not being watched and attacked them with beatings. From 1938/1939 Bugdalle was used in "isolation", a fenced off area in the camp in which prisoners were treated particularly cruelly. He had inmates pour cold water over them in winter and freeze them outside.

From August 1941 to May 1942 Bugdalle was deployed as a command leader in the Drögen satellite camp . He was then involved in a mass murder in the Klinkerwerk satellite camp. In 1942 he signed up as an instructor for the Waffen SS and from the summer he came to Belgrade . When he lost his temper with a superior and beat him up, he was demoted. He was sent to a military prison for six months before being transferred to the front.

At the end of the war in 1945 he was captured by the Americans in Styria and taken to the Dachau internment camp . In 1946 he was released and classified by the Munich Chamber of Judges in 1948 as a “fellow traveler”. He was arrested in November 1957. On January 20, 1960, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in nine cases by LG Munich I for murder . On March 1, 1978, he was conditionally released due to his health. Bugdalle spent the last years of his life until his death in 1982 in a home for the elderly, where Stille Hilfe continued to look after him, give him financial support and provide him with clothing.

literature

  • Stephanie Bohra: crime scene Sachsenhausen: prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606
  • 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 .
  • Günter Morsch (Ed.): The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-823-9
  • Andreas Eichmüller: No general amnesty. The prosecution of Nazi crimes in the early Federal Republic . Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70412-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 207.
  2. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 594.
  3. ↑ a b c Andreas Eichmüller: No general amnesty. The prosecution of Nazi crimes in the early Federal Republic , Munich 2012, p. 233.
  4. ^ A b c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 208.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons . Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 72.
  6. ^ A b Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 525.
personal data
SURNAME Bugdalle, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Pomßen
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1982
Place of death Munich