Mauthausen Aktiv GUSEN

within ARBEITSKREIS FUER HEIMAT-, DENKMAL- UND GESCHICHTSPFLEGE (AHDG)
and Local-International Platform ST. GEORGEN/GUSEN, Austria

KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Info-Pages

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The SS at KZ Gusen

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• SS-Standartenfuerher Franz Ziereis was commander of the KZ Mauthausen central administration and was responsible for all its 49 satellites too. He was captured and interviewed by US troops in May 1945 but died at Gusen on 25 May 1945. His corps was exhibited (hanged) at the KZ Gusen camp for several days at the end of May 1945.
  
  
• SS-OStuf Georg Bachmayer was 1. Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer of the KZ Mauthausen central camp. On 8 May 1945 he executed his wife and children and committed suicide.
  
  

1. Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer:

SS-HStuf Carl Walter Chmielewski (until December 1942)
(Deputies: Dammbach, Redwitz & Ernstberger)

SS-HStuf Fritz Seidler (May 1943 to Mai 1945)
He committed suicide at the end of the war

2. Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer:

SS-HStuf Redwitz (1941/1942); he came to Ravensbrueck in 1942

SS-OStuf Ernstberger (until 1942/43); he was removed to Gross-Rosen at the end of the war

SS-HStuf d R Johann (Jann) (Armin?) Beck (1943-45; surrendered KZ Gusen I to American troops on May 5, 1945)

SS-Rapportfuehrer:

1. Rapportfuehrer (until 1941) SS-OScha Anton Streitwieser (with October 1942 KZ Mauthausen)

1. Rapportfuehrer (since 1943) SS-OScha Gangstaetter

1. Rapportfuehrer (since 1943) SS-Oscha Michael Killermann

2. Rapportfuehrer (since 1943) SS-OScha Damaschke

SS-UScha Richard Bendel

Isenberg

SS-OScha Kurt Kirchner ... prosecuted by US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947

SS-Arbeitsdienstfuehrer:

1. Arbeitsdienstfuehrer (early 1940) SS-OScha Kirschner (removed to Auschwitz)

1. Arbeitsdienstfuehrer (1940 to 42) SS-OScha Helmuth Kluge (Flensburg), 8 years imprisonment, Hagen 1968

1. Arbeitsdienstfuehrer (since 1943) SS-OScha Fuessl ... prosecuted by US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947

2. Arbeitsdienstfuehrer (since 1943) SS-Oscha Alfons (Rudolf) Gross (Endersdorf), 6 years imprisonment, Hagen 1968

Arbeitseinsatzführer (1940 to 42) SS-HScha Franz Gottfried Schulz, Nuremberg ... he later became 2. Schutzhaflagerfuehrer at KZ Gusen II (1943/1945)

Command Company:

SS-OStuf Baecker

SS-UStuf Mueller

SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Obermeier

SS-OStuf Riemer (Bad Fulda)

SS-OStuf Schuetthauf

Further members of the command-staff (SS-Blockfuehrer, etc.):

SS-OScha Bach (Stolp)

SS-UScha Baecker (Saarland)

SS-OScha Willy Bast (Assenheim)

SS-OScha Dennoth (Innsbruck)

SS-HScha Grill

SS-UScha Heisig (Neustadt/Silesia)

SS-UScha Hojer (Cheb)

SS-HScha Gottfried Jentzsch (Zwickau), adjutant (Spiess im Kdo-Stab Gusen), life-long imprisonment, Hagen 1968

SS-UScha Kinzig (Trier) (Punishment Company)

SS-UScha Klein (Koestlin)

SS-UScha Georg Klinger (Brieg)

SS-HScha Kuerschner

SS-OScha Kuehtreiber (Gmunden)

SS-UScha Kunzler

SS-UScha Meisgeier

SS-UScha Panhans

SS-UScha Poweleit

SS-Uscha Priesterberger (Vienna)

SS-HScha Purkert

SS-UScha Retschesegger (Linz)

SS-UScha Reuter

SS-UScha Riedl (Rosenau)

SS-UScha Sauer

SS-OScha Teo Schmidt ... prosecuted by US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947

SS-OScha Schulz (Nuremberg) ... became 2.Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer of KZ Gusen II in 1944

SS-OScha Maximilian Seidel ... prosecuted by US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947

SS-UScha Stahl (Heidelberg) ... sentenced to 12 year imprisonment by court of Heidelberg in 1957

Stiegele, Blockfuehrer, not guilty, Hagen 1968

SS-UScha Strobl

SS-OScha Tandler (Saxony) ... prosecuted by US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947

SS-OScha Anton Walter

SS-OScha Willi Wirth (Frankfurt/Main) ... 1940-42 chief of barrack for invalids

SS-OScha Werner (Teplic-Sanova)

SS-Doctors:

SS-HStuf Dr. Adolph Benno (?)

Dr. Boehmichen Karl Gustav

SS-HStuf Dr. Friedl (Standortarzt in Gusen)

SS-UStuf Dr. Haas (Revierarzt)

SS-UStuf Dr. Henschl (Revierarzt)

SS-UStuf Dr. Jung (Revierarzt)

SS-UStuf Dr. Kiesewetter (Revierarzt), Olbersdorf/Silesia

SS-HStuf Dr. Krebsbach (SS-Standortarzt Mauthausen-Gusen)

SS-UStuf Dr. Lindel

Dr. Luccas

SS-UStuf Dr. Piffarator

SS-UStuf Dr. Ramsauer Sieghart (Revierarzt 1941)

SS-UStuf Dr. Reiter

SS-OStuf Dr. Renault (Linzer-Arzt)

SS-OStuf Rögel Arthur

SS-UStuf Dr. Hans Richter (Revierarzt)

SS-UStuf Dr. Sajczyk (Revierarzt)

SS-OStuf Dr. Schildbach (Revierarzt)

Trüber

SS-OStuf Dr. Van dem Haft (Dentist)

Dr. Vetter

SS-UStuf Dr. Walter (SS-Arzt)

Zechter (SS-Arzt)

Guard Company:

SS-OStuf Schmutzler (Wachkompaniefuehrer)

SS-OStuf Erich Schuetthauf (Wachkompaniefuehrer)

SS-OStuf Vaessen (Wachkompaniefuehrer)

The Guards:

up to 1944

11 to 13 companies totalling some 1.650 to 1.900 SS-guards (subdivided to 2-3 SS-Wachsturmbanne; one Wachsturmbann comprised up to 4 SS-companies; the guards were regularly exchanged to other camps - just the members of the command staff remained)

in 1945

up to 3000 guards (SS-men & Air Force)

SS-Baustab Gusen:

SS-OStuf Wilhelm Seidler (Bauleitung Gusen)

The GeStaPo "Politische Abteilung"

Chief: Kriminalsekretaer Mayerhofer

SS-OScha Habenichts

Internal Prisioner´s Administration:

Lager-Aelteste (camp elder):

Helmut Becker, Block 20

Martin Gerken

Heinrich Heil

Johann (Hans) Kammerer (sentenced to life-long imprisonment in 1948)

Karl Rohrbacher

Lager-Schreiber (camp secretary)

Adolf Jahnke (nicknamed "Bismark"); he was Lager-Schreiber I

Rudolf Meixner; he was Lager-Schreiber I

Block-Aelteste (barrack elder):

Hermann Amelung; he was Block-Aeltester of Block 3 and carried out the gassing of ill inmates at the end of the war at KZ Gusen I

Stuben-Aelteste (room elder)

Gustaw Krutzky (nicknamed "Tiger" ); he was Stuben-Aeltester of Block 19 and Chief-Kapo of the KZ Gusen stone-quarries

Other Kapos

August Adam

Johann Apitz

Franz Baerwolf

Joseph Bobrowski (nicknamed "Kassandra"); as 3rd Chief-Kapo of the "Revier" he carried out medical experiments on his own responsibility. Being homosexual he abused many young inmates. One day he comitted suicide to prevent an end in the punishment company because of stealing alcohol from the "Revier".

Rudolf Figl; he was Kapo at the desinfection of Gusen 1 and hat to assist Amelung in the gassings of April 1945.

Karl Fleicher; ... prosecuted by the US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947.

Karl Fortauer (nicknamed "Zehe", "Frosch"), Oberkapo at Steyrerwerke Gusen

Karl Froschauer

Indalazio Gonzales; ... prosecuted by the US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947.

Otto Heidemann (nicknamed "der Wuerger", "der Lange", "Langinus", "Giraffe" )

Karl Horcicka; ... prosecuted by the US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947.

Willy Jacob; he was a wittness in the trial against Liesberg at Koeln.

Walter Junge; he was Kapo of "Maurer-Kommando" (the mason´s command)

Franz Liesberg; one other Kapo at had to assist Amelung in the gassings of April 1945.

Kapo Roth (nicknamed "Red Phantom"); as Chief-Kapo of the "Revier" he was a very brutal man and murdered sick inmates in many different ways. One day he was killed by other Kapos with heart-injection when he wanted to kill a Polish prisoners doctor.

Karl Schroegler; ... prosecuted by the US War Crimes Branch at Dachau in 1947.

Aleksander Jan Skibice; ... Gestapo-Spitzel ?

Franz Zach; at first he was Kapo of the "Revier" and later on Kapo of the "Quarantain for Soviets" where he gave heart injections as ordered by Dr. Krebsach. Furthermore he was homosexual and abused many young inmates.

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KZ Gusen II Concentration Camp

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Commander

Max Pausch

2. Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer

SS-HScha Franz Gottfried Schulz (1943/1945), Nuremberg ... he was a former member of the Gusen 1 command-staff (Arbeitsdiensfuehrer 1940/1942)

Other Officials

Alexander Perutka ... prosecuted at US War Crimes Branch at Dachau 1947

Mr. Siclaff ... prosecuted at US War Crimes Branch at Dachau 1947

Internal Prisioners Administration:

Lager-Aelteste:

Kapo Van Loosen; as one of the most brutal Kapos, he conceived himself as a physician in the "Revier" of Gusen 2. There he killed people who had to queue up for this procedure in line by smashing their head with an ordinary hammer. He fled with the SS at the end of the war and was one of the most wanted criminals of Gusen after the war.

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KZ Gusen III Concentration Camp

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Commander

SS-OStuf Maack, Hamburg

Other

Hundefuehrer Hans Ziegler (Hunds-Hans), a guard with a dog

Mr. Canko, one of the few friendly Kapos

Information credit:

• Dobosiewicz Stanislaw, Mauthausen-Gusen oboz zaglady, Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, Warszawa 1979
• Kielich Victor, Personal Memoires concerning KZ Gusen I, New Zealand
• Koncentracni tabor Mauthausen/Gusen, Archiv Museum Mauthausen, B12/36
• Marsalek Hans, Die Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Mauthausen (Gusen)
• NISSID SS-Polizei Datei Suchdienst
• Pappalettera Vincenzo e Luigi, La Parola Agli Aguzzini, Mursia, Milano 1979