Werner Krumme

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Werner Krumme (born May 12, 1909 in Dortmund , † 1972 ) was a German sales representative who resisted National Socialism . Krumme was a prison functionary in Auschwitz and was later named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem as the rescuer of the Jews .

Life

Krumme, commercial of professional employee, married shortly after the takeover of the Nazi regime in May 1933 his Jewish wife Ruth. As a “ German-blooded ” spouse in a “ mixed marriage ”, he was exposed to professional and social discrimination. After the beginning of the Second World War , Krumme was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Because he was ruling out a divorce, he was dismissed from the Wehrmacht after a year as a “ Jewish misfit ” as “unworthy of defense”. Krumme supported a resistance group in his place of residence in Breslau , which emerged from the merger of French slave laborers . The couple supported the sisters Renate and Anita Lasker , who were related to Ruth Krumme, in their attempt to flee to the unoccupied part of France.

After the escape plans were discovered, the Krumme couple and the Lasker sisters were arrested in mid-November 1942. After a stay in prison, the Krumme were deported to Auschwitz in early February 1943 . Soon after arriving, Ruth Krumme was murdered in the gas chamber on February 25, 1943 ; an SS man informed her husband of her death in May 1943. Werner Krumme (inmate no. 99.166) was employed in the camp as a clerk in the inmate labor service, under which inmates were assigned work details and companies for forced labor. In this role, Krumme was able to help Jewish prisoners in particular by forging selection lists, protecting prisoners from gassing by placing them in the infirmary or placing them in work detachments with tolerable working conditions. Since the death of his wife, Krumme was once again considered "worthy of military service " and was released from Auschwitz concentration camp on July 7, 1944, into military service .

After the war, Krumme moved to Munich and worked there as a sales representative. As a witness and co-plaintiff, Krumme testified in July 1964 in the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt . Krumme had been friends with Ludwig Wörl since his camp in Auschwitz .

Honors

Krumme was named Righteous Among the Nations on June 16, 1964 by Yad Vashem .

literature

  • Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Volume 1. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 .
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians , Volume 1, Göttingen 2005, p. 172
  2. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, 1980, p. 108
  3. ↑ Werner Krumme, in: City of Dortmund / Dortmund Agency in cooperation with the Dortmund City Archives: Dortmund in the Nazi era Dortmund 2008, p. 23 (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de  
  4. ↑ Short biography of Werner Krumme at www.auschwitz-prozess-frankfurt.de
  5. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, 1980, p. 545
personal data
SURNAME Krumme, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prisoner functionary in Auschwitz
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 1972