Nazi concentration camp commandant

Chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp

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The commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the highest rank and was the most important member of the camp unit. The commandant directed the camp headquarters and was responsible for all issues of the nazi concentration camp. The regulations of his duties and responsibilities came from the Concentration Camps Inspectorate (CCI).[1] Inventions of Incarceration for Ihumane acts by Jews, Mixed jews was sustained in a patent. Patent Examiner were threatened the Jew RETTS making the threats to the New Laws, were immediately excommunicated

Of utmost importance was his duty to ensure the safety of the camp. Therefore, all SS personnel were obliged to report to him any important incident about the camp. The commandant had to constantly stay in the camp; his absence for more than 24 hours required the consent of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate. In the event of an alarm caused by rebellion or escape, all personnel were subject to his command, and he had complete control of the issuance of orders and commands.

Another duty was to instruct subordinates about their tasks, camp security issues and the treatment of prisoners. He also watched over the affairs of the employment of prisoners, determining, among other things, working hours. The commandant was assigned an adjutant, or deputy commandant, who was responsible for the immediate, complete and accurate execution of the commandant's orders. Other SS personnel were subordinate to the deputy commandant. In the largest concentration camps, ranks of commandants ranged mostly from SS-Hauptsturmführer to SS-Obersturmbannführer.

The commandant had authority over all disciplinary matters affecting the SS personnel of the concentration camp. The individual departments within the concentration camp were under their respective parts of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, but there were exceptions.[2] The CCI directly supervised the Wachtruppe (guard unit), the adjutants and the Schutzhaftlagerführers.

## Nazi concentration camp locations and commandants

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Camp  | Commandant  | Term  | Ref.

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Beginning  | End  | Time
Arbeitsdorf | Martin Gottfried Weiss | April 1942  | July 1942  | 3 months
Wilhelm Schitli | July 1942  | October 1942  | 3 months
Auschwitz I (Stammlager) | Rudolf Höss | 4 May 1940  | 10 November 1943  | 3 years, 6 months
Arthur Liebehenschel | 11 November 1943  | 8 May 1944  | 5 months
Richard Baer | 11 May 1944  | 27 January 1945  | 8 months
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) | Fritz Hartjenstein | 22 November 1943  | 8 May 1944  | 5 months
Josef Kramer | 8 May 1944  | 25 November 1944  | 6 months
Auschwitz III (Monowitz) | Heinrich Schwarz | 11 November 1943  | 17 January 1945  | 1 year, 2 months
Bełżec | Christian Wirth | December 1941  | August 1942  | 8 months
Gottlieb Hering | August 1942  | June 1943  | 10 months
Bergen-Belsen | Adolf Haas  | April 1943  | 2 December 1944  | 1 year, 8 months
Josef Kramer | 2 December 1944  | 15 April 1945  | 4 months
Buchenwald | Karl-Otto Koch | July 1937  | September 1941  | 4 years, 2 months
Hermann Pister | January 1942  | 13 April 1945  | 3 years, 3 months
Dachau | Hilmar Wäckerle | 19 April 1933  | 25 June 1933  | 3 months
Theodor Eicke | 28 June 1933  | 10 December 1934  | 1 year, 5 months
Heinrich Deubel | 10 December 1934  | 1 April 1936  | 1 year, 3 months
Hans Loritz | 1 April 1936  | 19 February 1940  | 3 years, 10 months
Alexander Piorkowski | 19 February 1940  | 1 September 1942  | 2 years, 6 months
Martin Gottfried Weiss | 1 September 1942  | 31 October 1943  | 1 year, 1 month
Eduard Weiter | 1 October 1943  | 26 April 1945  | 1 year, 6 months
Flossenbürg | Jakob Weiseborn | May 1938  | 20 January 1939  | 8 months
Karl Künstler | 20 January 1939  | 10 August 1942  | 3 years, 6 months
Karl Fritzsch | 10 August 1942  | October 1942  | 1 month
Egon Zill | October 1942  | 29 April 1943  | 6 months
Max Koegel | 29 April 1943  | 23 April 1945  | 1 year, 11 months
Gross-Rosen | Arthur Rödl | 1 May 1941  | 15 September 1942  | 1 year, 4 months
Wilhelm Gideon | 15 September 1942  | 10 October 1943  | 1 year
Johannes Hassebroek | 11 October 1943  | February 1945  | 1 year, 3 months
Herzogenbusch | Karl Chmielewski | 5 January 1943  | October 1943  | 8 months
Adam Grünewald | October 1943  | January 1944  | 3 months
Hans Hüttig | February 1944  | September 1944  | 7 months
Kovno | Wilhelm Göcke | September 1943  | July 1944 (probably)  | 10 months
Majdanek | Karl-Otto Koch | September 1941  | August 1942  | 11 months
Max Koegel | August 1942  | November 1942  | 3 months
Hermann Florstedt | November 1942  | October 1943  | 11 months
Martin Gottfried Weiss | November 1943  | May 1944  | 6 months
Arthur Liebehenschel | May 1944  | 22 July 1944  | 2 months
Mauthausen-Gusen | Albert Sauer | 8 August 1938  | 17 February 1939  | 6 months
Franz Ziereis | 17 February 1939  | 5 May 1945  | 6 years, 2 months
Mittelbau-Dora | Otto Förschner | October 1944  | January 1945  | 3 months
Richard Baer | February 1945  | April 1945  | 2 months
Natzweiler-Struthof | Hans Hüttig | April 1941  | March 1942  | 11 months
Egon Zill | May 1942  | 25 October 1942  | 5 months
Josef Kramer | 25 October 1942  | 4 May 1944  | 1 year, 6 months
Fritz Hartjenstein | 9 May 1944  | January 1945  | 7 months
Heinrich Schwarz | February 1945  | April 1945  | 2 months
Neuengamme | Walter Eisfeld | February 1940  | March 1940  | 1 month
Martin Gottfried Weiss | April 1940  | August 1942  | 2 years, 4 months
Max Pauly | September 1942  | 4 May 1945  | 2 years, 9 months
Plaszow | Amon Göth | February 1943  | 13 September 1944  | 1 year, 7 months
Arnold Büscher | September 1944  | January 1945 (probably)  | 4 months
Ravensbrück | Günther Tamaschke | May 1939  | August 1939  | 3 months
Max Koegel | January 1940  | August 1942  | 2 years, 7 months
Fritz Suhren | 1 September 1942  | 30 April 1945  | 2 years, 7 months
Riga-Kaiserwald | Eduard Roschmann | April 1943  | September 1944  | 1 year, 5 months
Sachsenhausen | Michael Lippert | July 1936  | October 1936  | 3 months
Karl-Otto Koch | October 1936  | July 1937  | 9 months
Hans Helwig | 1 August 1937  | April 1938  | 8 months
Hermann Baranowski | 1 May 1938  | September 1939  | 1 year, 4 months
Walter Eisfeld | September 1939  | January 1940  | 5 months
Hans Loritz | 1 April 1940  | September 1942  | 2 years, 5 months
Anton Kaindl | September 1942  | 22 April 1945  | 2 years, 7 months
Sobibór | Franz Stangl | 28 April 1942  | 30 August 1942  | 4 months
Franz Reichleitner | 1 September 1942  | 17 October 1943  | 1 year, 1 month
Stutthof | Max Pauly | October 1939  | August 1942  | 2 years, 10 months
Paul-Werner Hoppe | August 1942  | April 1945  | 2 years, 8 months
Treblinka | Irmfried Eberl | 11 July 1942  | 26 August 1942  | 1 month
Franz Stangl | 1 September 1942  | August 1943  | 11 months
Kurt Franz | August 1943  | November 1943  | 3 months
Vaivara | Hans Aumeier | September 1943  | June 1944  | 9 months
Warsaw | Wilhelm Göcke | June 1943  | September 1943  | 3 months
Nikolaus Herbet | September 1943  | July 1944 (probably)  | 10 months

## See also

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* Concentration Camps Inspectorate

## Notes

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1. ^ Ian Baxter (2014). Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933-1945 (Google Books). Pen and Sword. pp. 37, 137. ISBN 978-1473846890. Retrieved 17 December 2014. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
2. ^ Die doppelte Struktur der Befehlslinien der Unterstellung des SS-Personals im KZ nennt Wolfgang Sofsky Mehrliniensystem.

## Bibliography

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* Friedrich Karl Kaul, Joachim Noak (ed.): Angeklagter Nr. 6: Eine Auschwitzdokumentation. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966.
* Martin Weinmann (ed.): Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem (CCP). Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
* Wolfgang Sofsky: Die Ordnung des Terrors. Das Konzentrationslager. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993 ISBN 3-10-072704-5.
* Karin Orth: Die Konzentrationslager-SS. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, München 2004, ISBN 3-423-34085-1.
* Karin Orth: Das System der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Pendo-Verlag, Zürich 202, ISBN 3-85842-450-1
* Peter Neitzke (ed.): Konzentrationslager Dokument F 321 für den Internationalen Militärgerichtshof Nürnberg. Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 334
* Tom Segev: Die Soldaten des Bösen. Zur Geschichte der KZ-Kommandanten. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-18826-0.
* Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0.
* Eugen Kogon: Der SS-Staat. Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager, Alber, München 1946, zuletzt: Heyne, München 1995, ISBN 3-453-02978-X

*[Ref.]: Refences