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Willy Blume (born November 23, 1909 in Dortmund , † November 28, 1975 ibid) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and member of the command headquarters in Sachsenhausen .

Life

Willy Blume was the son of a miner . After attending elementary school, he worked as a casual worker for a few years. In 1929 a relative in Gdansk employed him in his freight forwarding company, where he began training as a travel agent.

In 1930 he joined the NSDAP . In December 1931, he joined the SA in Stade . In November 1933 he voluntarily went to a training camp for SA guards at the Papenburg and Börgermoor concentration camps . In October 1934 he was accepted into the SS guard battalion "Ostfriesland". A little later he was transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp .

In 1936 he was transferred to the command staff of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was employed as a labor service leader. In November 1936 he was transferred as a clerk in the accommodation administration of the concentration camp command staff, where he stayed until the end of 1940. In April 1941 he was transferred to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . There, too, he served in the administrative department of the headquarters staff and again participated in the abuse.

In November 1941 he was given the position of assistant accountant in the salary stele of the Waffen SS in Dachau . In April 1943 the SS called him up to the 13th SS Mountain Division . With the unit, Blume was deployed in Yugoslavia in February 1944 . In the course of the fighting, Blume was seriously wounded.

At the end of 1945, Blume surrendered to the British military authorities and was taken to the Neuengamme internment camp . Aurich was arrested there in July 1948 at the instigation of the public prosecutor's office and charged with crimes in Sachsenhausen. In June 1949 he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and denial of civil rights for crimes against humanity in unity with bodily harm . In July 1950 he was released from Celle prison. In another trial in 1967, Blume was acquitted for lack of evidence. Blume lived in Dortmund until his death in 1975.

literature

  • Stephanie Bohra: crime scene Sachsenhausen: prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606
  • Günter Morsch (Ed.): The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-823-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 202.
  2. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 203.
  3. ^ A b Günter Morsch: The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Excess and direct offenders in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Berlin, 2016, p. 204.
  4. ^ Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin, 2019, p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Flower, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1975
Place of death Dortmund