Wilhelm Bahr (SS member)

Wilhelm Bahr , called Willi Bahr (born April 25, 1907 in Gleschendorf; † October 8, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and SS medical officer in Neuengamme concentration camp and Vaivara concentration camp .

Life

From 1941, Bahr was a member of the SS camp crew at Neuengamme concentration camp and was employed there as an SS medical officer. According to the concentration camp prisoner Fritz Bringmann , Bahr killed prisoners in the Neuengamme concentration camp with petrol injections from January 1942. Before the execution, Bahr had commissioned Bringmann to carry out the murder, but he refused. In 1942, Bahr and about 20 other SS members took part in a “hydrogen cyanide course” on the use of Zyklon B in Oranienburg for three days , which was led by Bruno Tesch . At the end of September 1942, on the orders of the camp doctor, Bahr carried out the gassing of almost 200 Soviet prisoners of war in Neuengamme concentration camp , who had previously been transferred from a prisoner of war camp on the Lüneburg Heath to Neuengamme concentration camp.

In autumn 1943 Bahr was transferred to the Vaivara concentration camp . There he worked as an SS medical officer in the Klooga subcamp .

After the end of the war, Bahr was arrested and imprisoned. Bahr testified in early March 1946 in the Testa trial (Zyklon B case), which took place as part of the Curiohaus trials . In this process he admitted that he had taken part in a hydrogen cyanide course on the use of Zyklon B and that in September 1942 he had gassed almost 200 Soviet prisoners of war in Neuengamme concentration camp. Then Bahr was indicted in the main Neuengamme trial with thirteen other members of the Neuengammer camp SS. Bahr, who admitted during the trial to have gassed the Soviet prisoners of war, on 3 May 1946 to death by the strand sentenced in October 1946 at the prison Hameln executed .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 25.
^ Hermann Kaienburg : The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938–1945 . Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Bonn 1997, p. 242f.
↑ ^a ^b Angelika Ebbinghaus: The trial against Tesch and Stabenow. From Pest Control to the Holocaust In: 1999. Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century 13 (1998), p. 26.
↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , pp. 162, 164.

personal data
SURNAME	Bahr, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bahr, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS sergeant and medical officer in Neuengamme concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gleschendorf
DATE OF DEATH	October 8, 1946
Place of death	Hamelin

[Klee25-1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 25.

[2] Hermann Kaienburg : The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938–1945 . Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Bonn 1997, p. 242f.

[Ebbinghaus26-3] Angelika Ebbinghaus: The trial against Tesch and Stabenow. From Pest Control to the Holocaust In: 1999. Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century 13 (1998), p. 26.

[Benz/Distel162ff-4] Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 , pp. 162, 164.