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Shane A Beaver
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Albert Sauer

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Post by Shane A Beaver » 07 Feb 2008, 17:14

There seems to be very little information or clarity on this site regarding the career of SS-Stubaf Albert Sauer. Can anybody add to/clarify the following, please?

Born: Aug 17, 1898 (Misdroy)
SS NO: 19,180
NSDAP NO: 862,698
Ustuf: 24/12/33
Stubaf: 11/9/38
Nothing regarding his WW1 career
Oct 1934: zbV SS-Abschnitt XVI
1935: Columbia-Haus (but what was his post?)
1937: Bad Sulza (again, what was his post?)
1937-38: Schützhaftlagerführer Sachsenhausen
Aug 1, 1938 - Feb 19, 1939: CO KL Mauthausen (replaced by Ziereis)
As of June 1939: CO II./SS-Standarte 24
As of March 1940: CO Dulag "Glowna, near Posen
Sept 1942 - April 1943: SHLF Sachsenhausen again
1943-44: CO Riga/Kaiserwald
March 1945: CO Ravensbrück
Killed: May 5, 1945, Falkensee

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Post by steve248 » 08 Feb 2008, 13:49

He was not Kommandant FKL Ravensbrück in 1945.
Kommandant was Fritz Suhren until the camp was evacuated.


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Post by Shane A Beaver » 08 Feb 2008, 15:28

I didn't think that he was Commandant at Ravensbrück. So, where was he and what was he doing during the last weeks and months of the war? How and where was he killed?

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Post by Georges JEROME » 08 Feb 2008, 23:11

since april 1935 next to SS - Wachtrupp Brandenburg
and from summer 1935 Führer der 14. Hunderschaft.
From 1 april 1936 Kdt of the Thuringian KL Bad Sulza up to july 1937.
From july 1937 2.Schutzhaftlagerführer KL Sachsenhausen
He spend leader courses at the SS-Führerschule München-Dachau : his evaluation was so bad that Himmler decided to release from KL service into Allgemeine SS

JG

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