Walter Quakernack

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Walter Konrad Quakernack (born July 9, 1907 in Senne near Bielefeld , † October 11, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German SS Oberscharführer and war criminal who was employed as a member of the Political Department (Lagergestapo) in the Auschwitz concentration camp . After the end of the Second World War , Quakernack was sentenced to death in the second Bergen-Belsen trial and executed.

Life

Walter Quakernack earned his living as a clerk. He joined the NSDAP in 1931 and the SS in 1933 (SS No. 125.266). From June 1940 Quakernack was a member of the Auschwitz concentration camp crew . There he acted as a consultant in the political department (camp Gestapo), then in the admission and discharge office and then headed the camp registry office. He was also head of the crematorium administration at the main camp and is said to have taken part in the first gassing of Soviet prisoners of war in Block 11 at the end of 1941 . He also shot prisoners on the Black Wall and in the old crematorium . On September 1, 1942, he was promoted from Unter- to Oberscharführer and a year later, on September 15, 1943, he received the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords . In October 1943 there was an incident in which the dancer Franciszka Mann Quakernack stole his weapon and used it to kill an SS man and injure another.

From April 1944 Quakernack headed the Laurahütte subcamp of Auschwitz III Monowitz . This camp, a foundry and mountain hut of the Königs- und Bismarckhütte AG, was cleared in January 1945 in the course of the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the prisoners were transferred to the subcamp of the Neuengamme Hannover-Mühlenberg concentration camp . There the prisoners had to produce anti-aircraft guns for Rheinmetall-Borsig AG under the camp manager Quakernack at Hannoversche Motoren AG ( Hanomag ). After the evacuation of this camp on April 6, 1945, the prisoners under Quakernack ended up on a " death march " on April 8, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , which was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Quakernack was sentenced to death by the British Military Tribunal in the second Bergen-Belsen trial on May 30, 1946 in Celle for his actions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and Auschwitz . The sentence was on 11 October 1946 at the prison Hameln by the hangman Albert Pierrepoint enforced .

literature

  • 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 . , P. 326.
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Thomas Grotum: The digital archive - construction and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp , 2004, Campus, ISBN 3-593-37481-1 .
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, five volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Rudorff (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 16: The Auschwitz concentration camp 1942–1945 and the time of the death marches 1944/45 . Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-036503-0 , p. 192, fn. 7.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Grotum: The digital archive - construction and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp , 2004, p. 221f.
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 474.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 332, p. 326
  5. ↑ Franziska Mann: Resistance at the door of death on http://www.auschwitz.info
  6. ↑ Andrea Rudorff: Laurahütte . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , pp. 271f.
  7. ^ Claudia Taake: Accused: SS women in court at the University of Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-8142-0640-1 , p. 131
personal data
SURNAME Quakernack, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quakernack, Walter Konrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Senne near Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1946
Place of death Hamelin