Hispanopedia WikiAlbert Sauer (17 August 1898, Misdroy – 3 May 1945, Falkensee) was a Nazi German commandant of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He died of wounds in 1945, and was never tried for his role in The Holocaust.
Nazi atrocities and death
Sauer, a carpenter by trade, became a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and the SS in 1931. After a period of unemployment, he became a full-time SS employee.[1]
A protégé of the Inspector of Concentration CampsTheodor Eicke, Sauer was assigned to the SS guard unit (Wachtruppe) of Oranienburg concentration camp in April 1935. From 1 April 1936, he was the commandant of Bad Sulza concentration camp.[2] Between 1 August 1937 and mid-1938, Sauer was second Schutzhaftlagerführer in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and thus belonged to Wachtruppe Brandenburg.[1]
In the period between 1 August 1938 and 1 April 1939, he officially acted as commandant of the then-temporary quarryWienergraben, so named because of the Wienergraben Valley in which it was located, of Granitwerke Mauthausen, which relied on slave labor from the subcamps of Mauthausen-Gusen. Due to negligence, Sauer was removed from the camp service in April 1939.
On 9 February 1939, he was replaced as camp commandant by SS-SturmbannführerFranz Ziereis.[3] In the period of 1941–1942, he had an official position in the RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood).
From September 1942 to April 1943, Sauer was again Schutzhaftlagerführer in Sachsenhausen.[4] In 1943, Sauer was involved in the destruction of the Riga Ghetto, which involved executing or deporting thousands of people (mostly Jews) to their deaths in concentration camps. Later, he was temporarily the commandant of Kaiserwald concentration camp which was vacated in July 1944, by execution and deportation of inmates.
He died of wounds received at Falkensee on 3 May 1945.[5]
Bibliography
- Eberhard Jäckel y otros: Enzyklopädie des Holocaust , vol. 2, Tel-Aviv
- Stefan Hördler: Die Schlussphase des Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück , en: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Libro 3, 2008, p. 229, nota 34
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück , vol. 4, Múnich 2006, ISBN 978-3406-52964-1
Referencias
- ^ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.). Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück , vol. 4, Múnich 2006, pág. 295
- ↑ Udo Wohlfeld. das netz. Die Konzentrationslager en Turingia 1933-1937. Eine Dokumentation zu den Lagern Nohra, Bad Sulza und Buchenwald, = gesucht 2. Die Vergangenheit für die Zukunft retten!, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-935275-01-3, pág. 194 y siguientes.
- ↑ Rudolf A. Haunschmied , Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda. St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Reconsideración del campo de concentración de Mauthausen . BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7440-8págs. 54-58
- ↑ Hermann Kaienburg: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen . En: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. Beck, Múnich 2006 (Reihe, vol. 3) ISBN 978-3-406-52963-4, ISBN 3-406-52963-1pág. 40
- ↑ La «Solución Final» en Riga: Explotación y Aniquilación, 1941-1944, por Andrej Angrick, Peter Klein y Ray Brandon, pág. 479
- 1898 nacimientos
- Muertes en 1945
- Personal militar alemán muerto en la Segunda Guerra Mundial
- Gente del condado de Kamień
- Schutzhaftlagerführer
- Personal del campo de concentración de Mauthausen
- Personal del campo de concentración de Sachsenhausen
- Personal del campo de concentración de Kaiserwald
- perpetradores del Holocausto en Letonia
- Gueto de Riga
- SS-Sturmbannführer
- carpinteros alemanes
- Comandantes de los campos de concentración nazis