Strafvollzugslager der SS und Polizei: Himmler's Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals by Stuart B. T. Emmett

Author:Stuart B. T. Emmett [Emmett , Stuart B. T.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781781555606
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

He possesses a good to satisfactory capacity to promote SS values, he understands its meaning and is a convinced National Socialist, he is a good Beurkundungsführer, a willing and reliable worker who is able to complete in its entirety each request made to him. He has completed his Beurkundungsführer exam successfully and is a reliable, willing hard worker and deals with his tasks to my complete satisfaction. Biedermann completely deserves his promotion to Ustuf.

A recommendation for his further promotion was submitted on 26 September 1941 and this noted that Biedermann, possessed an orderly SS character, was restrained, knowledgeable and his capabilities were satisfactory. A recommendation for his further promotion on 27 November 1942 was refused. Accompanied by his family, Biedermann received orders to transfer to Danzig–Matzkau in July 1943 and was appointed the leader of the 1. Wachkompanie. Replacing Edmund Baumgärtner as Nr. 1. Lagerführer in February 1944, his superiors expressed their hope in June the same year that when promoted, he would transfer to the front to ‘prove himself’ (earning 4,800 Reichsmark per annum in 1944). Committing a disciplinary offence on 20 July 1944, Biedermann was punished with a simple reprimand and re-assigned to the SS-Straflager Dachau in August 1944. Speaking in 1967, Rudolf Heiß recollected that a short while after his removal from Matzkau, he replaced Biedermann as Nr. 1 Lagerführer in Matzkau in late July/August 1944 and the former prison compound commander transferred to the front. Leaving his wife and children in Danzig when re-assigned to Dachau, they were forced to abandon their possessions in the city during the spring of 1945 and flee to her parents in Essen. Post-war, Biedermann claimed to have then been seconded to the troops in the wake of his transfer from Matzkau and was wounded in action. Returning to prison service by December 1944, Biedermann avoided all mention of this during his denazification process, but an examination of his banking information reveals that his wages were paid to a bank in Mosbach/Baden and he had been appointed the Zweiglager Hammerweg commandant after his wounding. He held this post until the prison was closed and he escorted its inmates to the Aussenstelle Allach in April 1945.

Escaping from Dachau’s environs before its liberation on 28 April 1945, Biedermann surrendered to US military forces near Zell am See on 8 May and was taken under arrest for his membership of the Waffen-SS and possession of the rank of Hstuf. in accordance with the automatic arrest category (security memorandum Nr. 1 section 1 dated 25.2.1946 HQ 3rd Army). Detained at the US Army’s Prisoner of War Enclosure Nr. 409 Nuremberg–Langwasser, the II. / 26th Infantry Rgt. arrested Biedermann here at 9.00 a.m. on 8 June 1946. Hospitalised in Bruckberg on 25 June the same year, Biedermann recovered and was then placed into the care of the 1st Division’s Civilian Internment Enclosure Nr. 409 at Nuremberg–Langwasser. Here, questioned on 6 November 1946, Biedermann camouflaged his association with the Waffen-SS prison service and claimed to have been subordinate to ‘Hstuf.

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