Wolfgang Plaul

Wolfgang Plaul (born April 5, 1909 in Freiberg ; † 1945 missing) was a German SS-Obersturmführer as well as the second protective custody camp leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Plaul joined the NSDAP and SS in 1931 . After changing to the SS-Totenkopfverband , he was a member of the Sachsenburg concentration camp from 1934 to 1936 and was then deployed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

On December 20, 1939, Plaul arrived in Wewelsburg as a command leader with 60 concentration camp prisoners from Sachsenhausen who had to carry out construction work there. In January 1940 Plaul shot and killed an escaped prisoner from behind. Plaul was replaced on June 17, 1940 by Adolf Haas as command leader. The Außenkommando Wewelsburg was as from January 7, 1941 satellite camp subordinate to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Haas became camp leader and Plaul as his deputy the protective custody camp leader there. In May 1941 Plaul was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In Buchenwald, Plaul was temporarily second head of the protective custody camp and then head of the Buchenwald subcamp Laura .

From August 1944, Plaul, who was responsible for all the Buchenwald subcamps operated by HASAG , also took over the management of the Leipzig-Schönefeld subcamp, which was subordinate to the Buchenwald concentration camp from September 1944. In this satellite camp, “in March 1945, he was subordinate to a population of 4,781 female prisoners, 25 SS subordinates, 87 SS men and 59 female guards , including one female supervisor and one female supervisor.” Plaul, feared by the prisoners due to his brutal behavior, had to In February 1945, he was responsible for the mistreatment of prisoners by the Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Hermann Pister . Plaul replied in writing that he had given orders not to beat the female prisoners any more. The complaint may have been preceded by a complaint from the local operations director of HASAG, who was concerned about maintaining the workforce of the female prisoners.

Plaul has been lost since the end of the war.

literature

Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 .
Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89244-222-6 .
Eugen Kogon : The SS state . The system of the German concentration camps ; Frechen: Komet, 2000; ISBN 3-89836-107-1 (= Munich: Heyne, 1995 ³¹ ; ISBN 3-453-02978-X ; Reinbek near Hamburg: Kindler, 1974)

Web links

Photo by Wolfgang Plaul

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Göttingen 1999, p. 309.
^ Kirsten John-Stucke: Niedernhagen / Wewelsburg. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): 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 , p. 18f.
↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 287.
↑ Quoted in: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 496.
↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 444.

personal data
SURNAME	Plaul, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German protective custody camp leader in Buchenwald concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH	1945

[Stein309-1] Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Göttingen 1999, p. 309.

[2] Kirsten John-Stucke: Niedernhagen / Wewelsburg. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): 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 , p. 18f.

[3] Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 287.

[4] Quoted in: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 496.

[5] Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 444.