He also kept the records in the Forsthaus, where he was killed during the uprising by Chaim Engel and Kapo Pozycki.īOLENDER, Heinz Kurt ( Duisburg † 10 October 1966 Hagen)īolender arrived in Sobibor on 22 April 1942, at the same time as Stangl, Frenzel and Gomerski. In Lager II Beckmann was in charge of the sorting barracks and horse stables. He died in the Berlin Tegel prison.īECKMANN, Rudolf (20 February 1922 Osnabrück † 14 October 1943 Sobibor) On he was sentenced to death, but this sentence was commuted into life imprisonment in November 1971. On the street Samuel Lerer and Esther Raab recognized him and he was jailed. In 1946 he worked in Berlin clearing up debris. He committed suicide and Frenzel attended his funeral.īAUER, Hermann Erich (26 March 1900 Berlin † 4 February 1980 Berlin)īauer was the Gasmeister of Sobibor and he occasionally worked as a lorry driver. There is no information about Bauch’s period in Sobibor. He called himself Hausklempner (plumber) and boasted that he had made the gas chambers look like neat shower rooms.īAUCH, Ernst (30 April 1911 † 4 December 1942 Berlin) As he would later in Sobibor, he installed gas pipes. Four of them had previously worked in a Euthanasieanstalt.īARBL, Heinrich (3 March 1900 Sarleinsbach, Austria)īarbl was transferred from Hartheim euthanasia centre to Belzec. those who served less than eight months or only the final months in Sobibor (Haulstich, Kamm, Müller, Ryba, Stengelin, Bree, Dubois, Hödl and Unverhau).
Of this group Fuchs and Stangl had previously worked in a Euthanasieanstalt. those who served in Sobibor only in the starting period and for less than eight months (Barbl, Bolender, Fuchs, Ittner, Schütt, Stangl and Weiss).The latter seven had previously worked in a Euthanasieanstalt. those who had served in Sobibor between eight months and one year (Bauch, Richter, Steffl, Wendland, Lachmann, Grömer, Konrad, Ludwig, Michel, Niemann, F.All of them had previously worked in a Euthanasieanstalt. those who had served in Sobibor for more than one year (Graetschus, Dachsel, Klier and Reichleitner).Bauer was the only one among them who had not previously worked in a Euthanasieanstalt. those who served in Sobibor from its establishment in April 1942 until the uprising on 14 October 1943 (Bauer, Beckmann, Bredow, Floss, Frenzel, Getzinger, Gomerski, Groth, Nowak, Rehwald, Steubl, Vallaster and Wagner).Many of the German SS who served in Sobibor came from one of the euthanasia centres where the mentally disabled were killed. In charge of the everyday running of the camp, however, was Lagerspiess Gustav Wagner and his deputy Karl Frenzel, who was also the head of the Bahnhofkommando and the commander of Lager I.
Franz Stangl and Franz Reichleitner were the successive commanders of Sobibor.