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Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Sampo Jämbeck on 09 Jan 2008 22:29

This is the info what I have found concerning
staff of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

I've been using search of this forum, but it takes time.

Please people, be so kind and fill the missing parts
with your knowledge. Ranks, names etc.

SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss - Kommandant, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Aumeier - Lagerführer of Auschwitz I from 16th February 1942 until 18th August 1943
SS Sturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Wirths - SS-Standortarzt, Chief SS Doctor at Auschwitz
SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Victor Capesius - KZ-Apotheker, Camp pharmacist
SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Horst Schumann - conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz
SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Aumeier - Schutzhaftlagerführer (1906 - 1948)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch - Schutzhaftlagerführer
SS-Hauptsturmführer Johann Schwartzhuber - Schutzhaftlagerführer in Birkenau
SS-Hauptsturmführer Prof. Dr. August Hirt - ?
SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Karl Kahr - Lagerdoktor
SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Josef Mengele - Lagerdoktor, Camp physician, Chief Medical Officer of the main infirmary camp at Birkenau
SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Heinz Thilo - Lagerdoktor, Camp physician in Birkenau? (1911 - 1945)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Bruno Beger -
SS-Obersturmführer Karl Höcker - Camp adjutant
SS-Obersturmführer Franz Hössler - 1941 Hössler became Rapportführer,
- 1943 Hössler became Schutzhaftlagerführer in the women’s camp at Birkenau
SS-Obersturmführer Johann Paul Kremer, M.D., Ph.D. - ?
SS-Untersturmführer Dr. Hans Münch - SS Physician at the Auschwitz
SS-Untersturmführer Maximilian Grabner - Gestapo chief in Auschwitz
SS-Untersturmführer Hans Stark - ?
SS-Untersturmführer Hans Wilhelm König - Doctor
SS-Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzch - Rapportführer
SS-Oberscharführer Otto Moll - Krematorium kommandant
SS-Oberscharführer Erich Muhsfeldt - Blockführer
SS-Unterscharfuhrer Karl Bara - ?
SS-Unterscharfuhrer Ferdinand Baier - ?
SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk - Rapportführer in Auschwitz
SS Rottenführer Stefan Baretzki - Blockführer at Auschwitz
SS Rottenfuhrer Karl Edward Stadler - Blockführer
SS-Rottenfuhrer Karl Bainski - ?

Fritz Klein - Camp doctor in the women’s camp in Birkenau.
Subsequently he worked as a camp doctor in the Gypsy camp
Dr. Carl Clauberg - Sterilization of Women
Dr. Kurt Gutzeit - ?
Dr. Arnold Dohmen - Hepatitis experimentation in Auschwitz
Dr. Maudas - ?

SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel - Lagerführerin (female commandant)
Elizabeth Volkenrath - Oberaufseherin
Therese "Rose" Brandl - Rapportaufseherin
Hildegard Lächert - Aufseherin
Irma Grese - Aufseherin
Alice Orlowski - Aufseherin

Dr. Wladyslav Dering - Polish physician who worked at Auschwitz
Dr. Berthhold Epstien - Prisoner pediatrician who helped Mengele with his work on the treatment of Noma
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli - Jewish prisoner doctor at the Auschwitz
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Postby David Thompson on 09 Jan 2008 22:54

This is from an older page (now gone) in the Third Reich Factbook, compiled by Marcus Wendel and Dean Robson:

Third Reich Factbook - SS personnel serving at Auschwitz

SS personnel serving at Auschwitz
Commandants
1.SS Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch (Killed in Action)
2.SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Höss (Executed by the Poles)
3.SS Obersturmführer Arthur Liebhenschel (Executed by the Poles)
SS & Civilian Doctors
Dr Carl Clauberg (Died in a West German Prison)
Dr Arnold Dohmen (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Friedrich - Karl Entress (Executed by the Allies)
Dr Kurt Gutzeit (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Willy Jobst (Executed by the Allies)
SS Obersturmführer Dr Bruno Kitt (Executed by the Allies)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Fritz Klein (Executed by the Allies)
SS Untersturmführer Dr Hans - Wilhelm König (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Eduard Krebsbach (Executed by the Allies)
SS Untersturmführer Dr Johannes Kremer (Life Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Dr Franz Lucas (3yrs Imprisonment)
Female SS Oberaufseherinen Dr Maria Mandel (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Josef Mengele (Escaped Abroad - Died in a Swiming
Accident)
SS Obersturmführer Dr Hans Munch (Acquitted)
SS Obersturmführer Dr Werner Rohde (Executed by the Allies)
SS Sturmbannführer Dr Horst Schumann (Escaped Abroad)
SS Obersturmführer Dr Horst Thilo (Committed Suicide)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Alfred Trzebinski (Executed by the Allies)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Helmuth Vetter (Executed by the Allies)
SS Hauptsturmführer Dr Eduard Wirths (Committed Suicide in Prison)
Dr Helmut Wirths (Fate Unknown)
Guards
SS Hauptsturmführer Benno Adolf (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Unterscharführer Bruno - Hugo Albrecht (7yrs Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Hans Aumeier (Executed by the Allies)
SS Hauptsturmführer Richard Baer (Escaped Abroad - Died in Prison)
SS Rottenführer Karl Bainski (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Karl Bara (3yrs Imprisonment)
SS Rottenführer Stefan Baretzki (Life & 8yrs Imprisonment)
SS Sturmmann Josef Baumstark (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterstumführer Emil Bednarek (Life Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Otto Blaschke (Fate Unknown)
SS Rottenführer Richard Böck (Acquitted)
SS Obersturmführer Franz Bodmann (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Boger (Life & 15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer August Bogusch (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Georg Bonigut (Fate Unknown)
Female SS Aufseherinen Juana Bormann (Executed by the Allies)
SS Oberscharführer Hans Bott (5yrs Imprisonment)
Female SS Aufseherinen Therese Brandl (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Arthur Breitwieser (Life Imprisonment)
SS Rottenführer Pery Broad (4yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Karl - Reinhard Broch (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Anton Brose (Fate Unknown)
SS Scharführer Hermann - Balthasar Buch (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmmann Alexander Bulow (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Fritz Buntrock (Executed by the Poles)
SS Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Burger (5yrs & 8yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptscharführer Viktor Capesius (9yrs Imprisonment)
SS Sturmscharführer Lorenz Carstensen (Died in Prison)
Female SS Aufseherinen Luise Danz (Life Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Hans Delmotte (Committed Suicide)
SS Hauptsturmführer Oskar Dienstbach (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Sturmmann Erich Dinges (5yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Andreas - Hans Draser (Fate Unknown)
Female SS Aufseherinen Margot Dreschler (Fate Unknown)
SS Scharführer Klaus Dylewski (5yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Josef Dziersan (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Josef Eckhardt (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Gerhard Effinger (Fate Unknown)
SS Scharführer Karl Egersdorf (Acquitted)
Female SS Aufseherinen Herta Ehlert (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Wilhelm Emmerich (WIA - Died in Hospital)
SS Hauptsturmführer Horst - Paul Fischer (Executed by West Germany)
SS Hauptsturmführer Karl - Josef Fischer (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmmann Willi Florschütz (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Gustav Frank (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptscharführer Willi Frank (7yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptscharführer Jakob Fries (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Gehring (Executed by the Poles)
SS Obersturmführer Gerhard Gerber (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Emanuel Glumbik (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Herbert Göbbert (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Johann Gorges (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Rottenführer Paul Gotze (Executed by the Poles)
Female SS Aufseherinen Irma Grese (Executed by the Allies)
SS Oberscharführer Maximilian Grabner (Executed by the Poles)
SS Rottenführer Ladislaw Gura (Acquitted)
SS Unterstumführer Ferdinand Hammer (Escaped Abroad)
SS Rottenführer Emil Hantl (3 ½yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptscharführer Friedrich Harder (Fate Unknown)
SS Obersturmbannführer Fritz Hartjenstein (Died in Prison)
SS Hauptsturmführer Erwin von Helmersen (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptsturmführer Erwin Heschl (Fate Unknown)
SS Rottenführer Karl Höcker (7yrs Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Franz - Johann Hoffmann (Life Imprisonment)
SS Rottenführer Hans Hofmann (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Horstmann (Fate Unknown)
SS Obersturmführer Franz Hössler (Executed by the Allies)
SS Oberscharführer Josef Houstek (Life Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Wilhelm Hoyer (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Karl Jeschke (3yrs Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Heinrich Josten (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptsturmführer Julius Jung (KIA by Russians)
SS Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk (25yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Johann Kamphus (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Hans - Walter Kapper (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Unterscharführer Edward Kelm (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Hermann Kirschner (Executed by the Poles)
SS Sturmscharführer Josef Klehr (Life & 15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Kurt Knittel (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Hans Koch (Life Imprisonment)
SS Obersturmführer Josef Kollmer (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Ernst König (Life Imprisonment)
SS Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer (Executed by the Allies)
SS Obersturmführer Theodor Kraetzer (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmbannführer Franz Kraus (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptscharführer Eduard Kreibisch (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Bernhard Kristan (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Krömer (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Hauptsturmführer Georg Kudriawtzow (Fate Unknown)
SS Rottenführer Romuald Kunzelmann (Fate Unknown)
SS Untersturmführer Alois Kurz (Fate Unknown)
Female SS Aufseherinen Hildegard Lachert (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Gerhard Lachmann (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Franz Laister (Fate Unknown)
Female SS Aufseherinen Johanna Langefeldt (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Otto Latsch (Executed by the Poles)
SS Rottenführer Anton Lechner (Life Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Eduard Lorenz (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Herbert Ludwig (Executed by the Poles)
SS Untersturmführer Georg - Franz Mayer (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Adolf Medefind (Life Imprisonment)
SS Untersturmführer Max Meyr (Fate Unknown)
SS Obersturmbannführer Karl Mockel (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Otto Möll (Executed by the Allies)
SS Oberscharführer Erich Mühsfeldt (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptsturmführer Robert Mulka (14yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Kurt Müller (Executed by the Poles)
SS Hauptscharführer Detlef Nebbe (Life Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Hinrich Oppelt (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Walter Otto (Acquitted)
SS Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzsch (Dissapeared)
SS Obersturmführer Bruno Pfuetze (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Hans Pichler (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge (Executed by the Poles)
SS Sturmbannführer Max Popiersch (Died of Typhus)
SS Hauptsturmführer Elimar - Lüder Precht (Fate Unknown)
SS Rottenführer Heinrich Pyschny (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Walter - Konrad Quakernack (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Karl Reichenbacher (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Franz Romeikat (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Rottenführer Johann Roth (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Sautter (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptscharführer Willi - Rudolf Sawatzki (Acquitted)
SS Rottenführer Willi Schatz (Acquitted)
SS Oberscharführer Herbert Scherpe (4 ½yrs Imprisonment)
SS Oberscharführer Bruno Schlange (6yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptsturmführer Friedrich Schlüter (4 & ½yrs Imprisonment)
SS Untersturmführer Karl Schmidt (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Johann Schobert (Acquitted)
SS Unterscharführer Heinrich Schoppe (Fate Unknown)
SS Obersturmführer Vincenz Schöttl (Executed by the Allies)
SS Unterscharführer Richard Schröder (10yrs Imprisonment)
SS Untersturmführer Wilhelm Schulte (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Heinz - Arthur Willi - Schulz (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Hans Schumacher (Executed by the Poles)
SS Untersturmführer Hans Schurz (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schwarz (Executed by the French)
SS Obersturmführer Johann Schwarzhüber (Executed by the Allies)
SS Hauptsturmführer Siegfried Schwela (Died of Typhus)
SS Hauptsturmführer Fritz Seidler (KIA by Russians)
SS Unterscharführer Robert Seitz (Fate Unknown)
SS Obersturmführer Max Sell (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Hauptscharführer Karl Seufert (Life Imprisonment)
SS Schütze Emil Simczek (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Willi Stark (10yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Karl - Fritz Steinberg (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Friedrich Stiewitz (Died - Not Prosecuted)
SS Unterscharführer Paul Szczurek (Executed by the Poles)
SS Unterscharführer Adolf Taube (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmbannführer Karl Heinz - Joachim Tauber (4yrs Imprisonment)
SS Unterscharführer Adolf Theuer (Executed by the Czechs)
SS Sturmbannführer Kurt Erich - Willy Uhlenbroock (Not Prosecuted)
SS Sturmmann Rudolf Viehweger (Fate Unknown)
Female SS Oberaufseherinen Elisabeth Völkenrath (Executed by the Allies)
SS Oberscharführer Peter Voss (Fate Unknown)
SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Wagner (KIA by Russians)
SS Hauptscharführer Bernhard Walter (Fate Unknown)
SS Sturmmann Johannes Weber (15yrs Imprisonment)
SS Hauptscharführer Peter Weingartner (Executed by the Allies)
SS Unterscharführer Gottfried Weise (Life Imprisonment)
SS Scharführer Richard Wiegleb (Fate Unknown)
SS Oberscharführer Josef - Alois Wietschök (Fate Unknown)
SS Untersturmführer Karl Wotke (Fate Unknown)
SS Untersturmführer Herbert Wuttke (Fate Unknown)
SS Rottenführer Paul Zielke (Fate Unknown)
Wachmann
SS Wachmann Vassily Pankov (Possibly Killed by the Russians)
SS Wachmann Ivan Scharujew (Fate Unknown)
Unknown SS
SS Schutze Höblinger (Fate Unknown)
SS Unterscharführer Rathmann (Fate Unknown)
SS Scharführer Taubert (Fate Unknown)
SS Scharführer Wiebeck (Fate Unknown)
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Postby Sampo Jämbeck on 10 Jan 2008 06:43

Thanks a lot. Great list. I'd like to know more about ranks, full names and what was their position or job in complex. Were they working in Auschwitz or Birkenau. Maybe some pics.
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Postby David Thompson on 10 Jan 2008 08:21

Because this thread has more to do with biographical information than war crimes, I'll move it to the SS&P section of the forum.
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Postby Phil Nix on 11 Jan 2008 12:09

Sampo Jämbeck wrote:Thanks a lot. Great list. I'd like to know more about ranks, full names and what was their position or job in complex. Were they working in Auschwitz or Birkenau. Maybe some pics.

May I suggest you try to get a copy of "Commanders of Auschwitz" by Jeremy Dixon ISBN 0-7643-2175-7 if unaffordable try inter-Library loan
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Mikedc on 21 Aug 2008 18:41

Dr Kurt Gutzeit (Fate Unknown)

After the war he went through a denazificationprogramme and after that he became head of the Sanatorium Herzoghöhe in Bayreuth. His next assignment made him head of the Clinic Fürstenhof in Bad Wildungen.
He died on 28-10-1957 in a clinic in Marburg.

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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Ludger on 23 Aug 2008 12:06

Mikedc wrote:Dr Kurt Gutzeit (Fate Unknown)

After the war he went through a denazificationprogramme and after that he became head of the Sanatorium Herzoghöhe in Bayreuth. His next assignment made him head of the Clinic Fürstenhof in Bad Wildungen.
He died on 28-10-1957 in a clinic in Marburg.

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Gutzeit, Kurt
born: 02.06.1893 (Berlin)
May 1933, department director, Virchow-Hospital (Berlin)
Oct. 1934, Ordinarius, University of Breslau.
1937, member NSDAP and NS-Dozentenbund
1939 SS-Hstuf.
Consulting physician for internal diseases (Internist) with the Heeressanitätsinspekteur); had an own department at the Militärärztliche Akademie.
1944 Generalarzt; member advisory board (Beirat) of the Plenipotentiary for Health Matters (Bevollmächtigter für das Gesundheitswesen; Karl Brandt).
Awarded with Ritterkreuz zum KVK with swords
1949 head, sanatory Herzoghöhe (Bayreuth).
1957 head, hospital Fürstenhof (Bad Wildungen).
died 28.10.1957 (Marburg hospital).

For more infos try this link: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66810&p=605605&hilit=Gutzeit#p605605
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Mikedc on 23 Aug 2008 13:12

Hello Ludger,

Thanks for this wonderfull info. Most of it I already have since two days ago but some things were new to me so that's appreciated a lot.
Michael Miller was also so kind to post some more info about Dr. Gutzeit in another thread and that info deals mostly with his promotions. See for that info: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=9564&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30

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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Ludger on 23 Aug 2008 14:16

I forgot to mention the source in my thread: Klee, Ernst (2005): Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, S. 212
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby paratatruc on 16 Sep 2008 22:54

Horst - Paul Fischer was sentenced to death by an east german court and by a west german.
As far as I know-I am not sure-,the West german never executed any war criminal.
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Ludger on 19 Sep 2008 09:34

paratatruc wrote:Horst - Paul Fischer was sentenced to death by an east german court and by a west german.
As far as I know-I am not sure-,the West german never executed any war criminal.


Fischer, Horst Paul Sylvester; Dr. med.
SS-Hstuf.
deputy garrison physician, KL Auschwitz

born: 31.12.1912 (Dresden)
died: 08.07.1966 (Leipzig, executed)
NSDAP-No. ???
SS-No. ???

Family status: married, 4 children
Profession: surgeon
1933 member, NSDAP.
1937 member, SS.
06.11.1942 camp physician, KL Auschwitz.
Mar. 1943 - Sep. 1944 camp physician, KL Auschwitz III.
??? Deputy garrison physician, KL Auschwitz.
Feb. 1945 with WVHA.

Further tasks:
SS-Division "Wiking"

Post war:
Since 1946 physician in Spreenhagen/Fürstenwalde.
Since 1959 search warrant by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Jun. 1965 arrested.
25.03.1966 sentenced to death by the High Court of the GDR.
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby freddiefro on 19 Sep 2008 10:46

A little additional info for Dr. Horst Fischer:

NSDAP Nr.: 5 370 971; SS Nr.: 293 937; SS-Hauptsturmführer d. R.: 21.06.1943.
Before camp service at Auschwitz, he was an SS-Untersturmführer posted to I.R."Nordland" in July 1941 and was IVb,Pz.Jg.Abt.5 in Jan. 1942.

French L. MacLean's "The Camp Men" (p.74) has him serving at Ravensbrück after Auschwitz, but there is no date given for that.

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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby Phil Nix on 19 Sep 2008 11:36

There is a good bio and Pic in Jeremy Dixon's book "Commanders of Auschwitz"
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby trbooks on 28 Sep 2008 12:25

SS Unterstumführer Ferdinand Hammer (Escaped Abroad)


Correct information about Hammer:

SS-Sturmmann
Born: 30 July 1921 in Lacarak, Croatia

Was a guard at Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz
Lived in America until 1997 when he was deported from Michigan, USA

The following is a press release:
Ferdinand Hammer, a Sterling Heights, Michigan, man who served as
an armed Waffen-SS guard at the Nazi-operated Auschwitz and
Sachsenhausen concentration camps during World War II.

Chief U.S. Immigration Judge Michael J. Creppy found that
Hammer, 75, participated in persecuting persons because of race,
religion, national origin, or political opinion in association
with the Nazi government of Germany, while serving as a member of
the Nazi SS-Totenkopf Sturmbann (Death's Head Battalions) at the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and at the
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp outside Berlin from 1944 through
1945. Judge Creppy also found that Hammer guarded prisoners on
transports from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen in January 1945, when
the Nazis evacuated Auschwitz in the face of approaching Soviet
troops, and later from Sachsenhausen to the Mauthausen
Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied Austria.

During the evacuation of Auschwitz, prisoners were forced to
march long distances in freezing conditions without adequate
winter clothing. Those unable to keep up with the march were
routinely shot. Prisoners were then loaded onto open train cars
for the journey to Sachsenhausen. Many prisoners died during the
evacuation, often from exposure. The subsequent transports from
Sachsenhausen to Mauthausen were conducted under similar brutal
conditions, and many people died as a result.

While Hammer was an armed SS guard at Sachsenhausen
Concentration Camp, tens of thousands of individuals, including
Jews, political prisoners, and civilian forced laborers from
nations throughout Europe, along with Soviet prisoners of war,
were murdered by shooting, hanging or other means, or died as a
result of torture, malnourishment, illness, hard physical labor,
medical experimentation, or other forms of mistreatment.

The case against Hammer was brought by the Criminal
Division's Office of Special Investigations (OSI). In May 1996,
the United States District Court in Detroit stripped Hammer of
his naturalized U.S. citizenship on the ground that the retired
foundry supervisor misrepresented his activities during World War
II and concealed his service as an armed SS guard from U.S.
officials when he applied for naturalized citizenship in 1963.
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Re: Auschwitz staff info needed

Postby robp on 28 Feb 2009 04:31

In Austria, Hammer faces no charges, the Austria Press Agency said. Neither Simon Wiesenthal’s Jewish Documentation Center nor the Austrian Justice Ministry has any record of punishable offenses committed by him.

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