Wilhelm Dreimann

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Wilhelm Dreimann , called Willi Dreimann (born March 18, 1904 in Osdorf near Hamburg , † October 8, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German SS sergeant and was employed as a report leader in the Neuengamme concentration camp .

Life

Dreimann, coming from a poor background, worked as a wood carver in Detmold . Due to better earning opportunities, he worked briefly in the police from 1940 and then deployed to the guards of the Neuengamme concentration camp. From 1941 he acted as block leader in the Neuengamme concentration camp and from August 1942 to March 1943 he was deputy camp leader in the Neuengammer satellite camp in Wittenberge under Max Kirstein and then in the Salzgitter-Drütte subcamp . In Neuengamme concentration camp, Dreimann was deployed as a report leader from 1944 until the beginning of May 1945. In the course of the evacuation of the Neuengamme concentration camp, the last 700 prisoners left in the camp left the Neuengamme concentration camp on an evacuation march towards Flensburg on April 30, 1945, under the direction of the protective custody camp leaders Anton Thumann and Wilhelm Dreimann .

The murder of 20 Jewish children in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort on the night of April 20-21, 1945 caused a public sensation shortly after the end of the war . The children aged five to twelve, half of them boys and girls, were brought from the Auschwitz concentration camp to the Neuengamme concentration camp in November 1944 , requested by the concentration camp doctor Kurt Heissmeyer . After he had already carried out human experiments on Soviet prisoners of war, the children were infected with tuberculosis. Tissue samples were then taken from them to develop a vaccine. In order to get rid of the witnesses to this crime, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl from Berlin ordered that the Heißmeyer department be "dissolved". In the basement of the school, Alfred Trzebinski injected the children with morphine and then - with the complicity of Arnold Strippel and Johann Frahm  - they were hanged on heating pipes. Their four carers and over 20 Soviet prisoners of war were also killed with the children. Dreimann had brought the children into the cellar. Dreimann, who was described as sadistic and brutal by former prisoners, hanged the three Polish nurses who had accompanied the children from Auschwitz to Neuengamme concentration camp on December 4, 1944 in the Neuengamme concentration camp bunker.

By testimony, Dreimann was also proven to be involved in a crime in the final phase in the Neuengamme concentration camp , in which between April 21 and 23, 1945, 71 protective prisoners transferred from the Fuhlsbüttel police prison were murdered in the detention bunker of the Neuengamme concentration camp.

After his arrest, he was indicted on March 18, 1946 in the Curiohaus before a British military tribunal in the Neuengamme main trial for participating in crimes in the Neuengamme concentration camp. In May 1946, three men were to death by the strand convicted and on 8 October 1946 at the prison Hameln executed .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hermann Kaienburg: The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938–1945. Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Bonn 1997, pp. 303, 219.
  2. ^ Günther Schwarberg : Hanging twenty children takes a long time. In: Die Zeit from April 6, 2005, No. 15.
  3. ↑ See Hermann Kaienburg: The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938–1945. Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Bonn 1997, p. 303.
personal data
SURNAME Dreimann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreimann, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS man, report leader in Neuengamme concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Osdorf near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1946
Place of death Hamelin