Werner Krämer (SS member)

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Werner Krämer (born November 5, 1913 in Eisenach , † March 18, 1981 in Hanau ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and block leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Werner Krämer was the son of a musician . Until 1929 he attended elementary school. He then began an apprenticeship as a stone and offset printer in the Eisenacher Zeitung print shop, which he continued from the beginning of 1932 at the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Erfurt . After the journeyman's examination in 1933, he stayed there as a printing assistant, but was then dismissed due to a lack of work.

From April 1933, Krämer belonged to the SA . In November 1934 he volunteered for the Reichswehr and completed twelve months of military service. He then worked briefly as an industrial laborer. Afterwards he joined the SS-Totenkopfverband "Elbe". From June 1936 he was employed in the guards of the Lichtenburg concentration camp in Prettin . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In August 1937 he was on guard duty in the office of the Thuringian Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel in Weimar . In May 1938 he was delegated to the SS-Totenkopfstandard "Brandenburg" in Oranienburg . Here he was initially a member of the security team from Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1939 he was transferred to the command staff of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and used as a block and work command leader. In autumn 1941 he participated in the mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war. At the end of 1943 he was transferred to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp in the Netherlands , where he worked as a block leader. In 1944, Krämer was withdrawn to serve on the front in the east.

After the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans in Tyrol , where he suffered a gunshot wound. The US military authorities handed him over to the French troops. Until May 1948 he was imprisoned in the internment camps Auxonne and Altschweier . After his release, he settled in Hesse and worked in agriculture. At the beginning of the 1950s he found work again in his profession as a printer . In 1964 he was arrested and was in custody . In May 1965 he was on trial in the first Sachsenhausen trial in Cologne , where he was charged with participating in the mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war. On May 28, 1965, he was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison by the Cologne Regional Court .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 291.
  2. ^ A b c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 292.
  3. ^ A b c Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Division of labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin 2018, p. 293.
  4. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606 , p. 600.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1981
Place of death Hanau