Walter Eisfeld

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Walter Eisfeld (born July 11, 1905 in Halle , † April 3, 1940 in Dachau ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and camp commandant of the Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme concentration camps .

Life

Eisfeld completed an agricultural apprenticeship and then worked as a farmer. From 1925 to 1933 he was employed by the city of Halle.

He was fond of the army since his youth, joined the Roßbach organization and in 1924 the Artamanen . After joining the youth union of the NSDAP in 1923 , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1925 ( membership number 4,802) and in 1927 of the SA . Eisfeld switched from the SA to the SS at the beginning of October 1929 and was employed there full-time from 1933.

From November 1936 he was a member of the 7th SS standard "Friedrich Schlegel" . In mid-June 1938 he was employed as a member of the SS-Totenkopfstandard "Upper Bavaria", first in the Dachau concentration camp and later in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp he quickly rose to the position of First Protective Custody Camp Leader and in October 1939 he took over the post of camp commandant in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from Hermann Baranowski . An incident during Heinrich Himmler's inspection of the camp led to his transfer as camp commandant to the Neuengamme concentration camp at the beginning of February 1940 . In Neuengamme, Eisfeld, which quickly became known among the prisoners for its brutality, was referred to by them as "ice cold". When he was supposed to receive the “silver party badge” in Dachau in April 1940 , Eisfeld died unexpectedly of pneumonia.

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SURNAME Eisfeld, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and concentration camp commander
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1940
Place of death Dachau