Wilhelm Siegmann

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Friedrich Wilhelm Siegmann (born August 16, 1898 in Oebisfelde ; † August 15, 1969 in Braunschweig ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp guard in several concentration camps .

Life

Siegmann took part in the First World War as an infantryman in the Imperial Navy and belonged to a free corps in the Baltic States in the post-war period . He was a locksmith by trade. He joined the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 413.945) and the SS in 1932 (SS number 49.125). After Siegmann had initially worked as a city inspector for the municipal administration in Hamburg from 1937 during the National Socialist era, he was later assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp .

During the Second World War he took over the so-called “ protective custody camp management ” of the men's camp in Ravensbrück concentration camp from April 1941 . In October 1940 he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he worked as a company commander and later as a military instructor at the headquarters staff. From December 16, 1943, he was employed in the Majdanek concentration camp for almost a year . During this time, SS-Obersturmführer Siegmann acted - after taking over the forced laborers - sub-camps at Bliżyn and Radom - de jure as camp manager of both camps. In fact, however, the Bliżyn camp was led by Oberscharführer Georg Heller with a so-called “handover commission” made up of 20 to 30 guards; Siegmann carried out "[... only] the regular supervision " there. From October 1944 Siegmann “worked” again in Auschwitz.

During the Auschwitz trials from 1963 to 1965 in Frankfurt am Main , Siegmann was questioned as a witness against the accused and Auschwitz camp commandant Richard Baer . According to his own statements, he was employed in the raw materials industry. Siegmann died in Braunschweig in 1969, one day before his 71st birthday.

See also

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 582
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Siegmann, Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of March 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Bernhard Strebel: The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp: History of a Camp Complex , Schöningh, 2003, p. 570
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons , Frankfurt / M. 2013, p. 377
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , pp. 86, 97 and others; mostly online via Google books
  5. ↑ Sybille Steinbacher , Devin O. Pendas : Jury court indictment of the public prosecutor at the regional court Frankfurt am Main in the criminal case Mulka and others from April 16, 1963 , in Raphael Gross , Werner Renz (ed.): Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess. (1963 - 1965) (= scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute , vol. 22), annotated source edition, vol. 1, Frankfurt am Main; New York City, NY: Campus-Verlag, [2013], ISBN 978-3-593-39960-7 and ISBN 3-593-39960-1 , p. 288; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Siegmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegmann, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp guard of several concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Oebisfelde
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1969
Place of death Braunschweig