S.S. Operatives at Stutthof and Litomerice Concentration Camps

On this page we offer an incomplete listing of S.S. operatives at Stutthof and Litomerice (Leitmeritz). These two camps were not connected to each other.

Stutthof S.S. Listing

Stutthof, a Concentration Camp in which more than 85,000 Jews and non-Jews were murdered, primarily served as a forced labor camp. Many women and girls were also at Stutthof camp. Below is a list of the (known) S.S. men and women at the Stutthof Concentration Camp. There were probably many others. Those who died prior to 1950 have a notation after their name with their cause of death. Those without any comment survived without receiving any significant punishment.

Female Guards:
Christel Bankewitz*
Jenny Wanda Barkmann - hanged
Olga Barnitsch Pickholtz*
Irene Baum*
Elisabeth Becker - hanged
Erna Beilhardt - 5 years imprisonment
Elisabeth Born*
Anni Bosch (born 1904) - 3 years imprisonment
Herta Bothe - 5 years imprisonment
Lydia Dase*
Erna Demanget*
Auguste Ekrutt*
Charlotte Freigen*
Anneliese Glaw*
Gertrud Hartjes*
Elfriede Hansen*
Nelly Heinen*
Ursela Holinski*
Emma Jobsen*
Ria Jorink Becker
Ursula Katscher*
Margarethe Katchen*
Frieda Kerst*
Wanda Klaff - hanged
Charlotte Klein*
Anna Kopp* (born 1904)
Gertrud Koske*
Erna Kranz*
Helene Kreusz* (born 1904)
Martha Krischewski*
Erna Krueger*
Gerda Kunath*
Lilli Lehmann*
Jenny Lickfers* (born 1920)
Hildegard Lenz*
Elisabeth Luth*
Emmy Marquardt*
Liselotte Muller*
Erna Naumann*
Lieselotte Oberauf*
Margarete Okon
Ewa Paradies - hanged
Maria Pils*
Erna Rattmann*
Gertrud Rheinholt*
Ilse Rode*
Maria Rose*
Magalena Roper*
Ilse Sass*
Paula Schaarschmidt*
Anna Scharbert*
Anne Lotte Schmidt*
Martha Schulz*
Erika Schulz (born 1907) - 7 years imprisonment
Pauline Franziska Schult* (born 1892)
Charlotte Stiegler*
Christel Stower*
Edith Thews*
Elisabeth Thimm*
Gertrud Vesper*
Kathe Wenzel*
Edith Will*
Sofie Wisch*
Johanna Wisotzki*
Erna Wollweber*
Else Zagst*
Else Ziegler*
Hildegard Ziegler*

Commandants:
Max Pauly - hanged
Paul Ehle - died 1965
Werner Hoppe - 9 years imprisonment
Erich Gust, aka Franz Giese
Franz Christoffel - unknown sentence
Alfred Dittmann
Alfred Driemel
Kurt Mathesius
Theodor (Teodor) Meyer - executed
Richard Reddig
Albert Schwartz
Ernst Sette
Engelbrecht von Bonin
Wilhelm Vogler

Adjutant:
Erich Muller
Walter Unger
Josef Stahl

Lagerarzt (S.S. Doctors):
Johannes Otto
Otto Heidl - committed suicide
Willy Jobst - executed
Werner von Schenk
Ernst Wedel, dentist

Other Guards and Leadership:
Richard Akolt - 3 years imprisonment
Leopold Baumgartner - less than 1 year imprisonment
Rudolf Berg - 10 years imprisonment
Jan Breit - hanged
Gustav Brodowski - less than 1 year imprisonment
Alfred Bublitz
Willi Buth - life in prison
Kurt Dietrich - executed
Nikolaus Dirnberger - 4 years imprisonment
Walter Dreher
Gustav Eberle - 10 years imprisonment
Bernard Eckermann - less than 1 year imprisonment
Karl Eggert - executed
Kurt Eimann - 4 years imprisonment
Walter Englert - 3 years imprisonment
Ewald Foth - hanged
Fritz Glawe - 10 years imprisonment
Johannes Goertz - 8 years imprisonment
Paul Goerke
Oskar Gottchau - 10 years imprisonment
Adolf Grams - 10 years imprisonment
Bruno Groning
Otto Haupt - 12 years imprisonment
Waldemar Henke - 5 years imprisonment
Hans Jakobi
Erich Jassen - 10 years imprisonment
Gustav Kautz - 5 years imprisonment
Adolf Klaffke - 10 years imprisonment
Nikolai Klawan - 3 years imprisonment
Franz Klingenberg
Ernst Knappert - less than 1 year imprisonment
Anton Kniffke - 3 years imprisonment
Otto Knott - 3 years imprisonment
Horst Koepke - 10 years imprisonment
Kapo Kazimierz Kowalski - 3 years imprisonment
Kapo Tadeusz Kopczynski - hanged
Kapo Waclaw Kozlowski - hanged
Max Kruger (Krueger)
Ernst Lange
Emil Lascheit - 10 years imprisonment
Johann Lichtner - 5 years imprisonment
Hermann Link - 5 years imprisonment
Heinz Loewen - 5 years imprisonment
Bernhard Luedtke - 6 years imprisonment
Hans Lutz
Karl Heinrich Meinck - 12 years imprisonment
Fritz Meier
Erich Mertens - 5 years imprisonment
Theodor Meyer - hanged
Franz Mielenz - acquitted due to illness
Hans Moehrke - 4 years imprisonment
Karl Mowe
Harry Mueller - 4 years imprisonment
Otto Neubauer
Erich Niemann
Kapo Alfred Nikolaysen - executed
Emil Paul - less than 1 year imprisonment
Albert Paulitz - executed
Johann Pauls - executed
Martin Pentz - 5 years imprisonment
Fritz Peters - executed
Johann Pfister - 5 years imprisonment
unknown Pfodt
Hans Rach - executed
Kurt Reduhn - 10 years imprisonment
Karl Reger - 8 years imprisonment
Johann Rehbogen
Kapo Josef Reiter - hanged
Paul Rexin
Walter Ringewald
Otto Schneider - 10 years imprisonment
Max Schowe - 8 years imprisonment
Albert Schwatz
Friedrich Johann Schwartz - executed
Christof Schwarz - 3 years imprisonment
Kapo Franz Spillmann - acquitted
Johann Sporer - 4 years imprisonment
Martin Stage - 8 years imprisonment
Josef Stahl - 10 years imprisonment
Erich Stampniok - 5 years imprisonment
Gerda Steinhoff - hanged
Kapo Fanciszek Szopinski - hanged
Friedrich Tessmer
Ernst Thulke - 5 years imprisonment
Erich Thun - life in prison
Richard Timm - 4 years imprisonment
Alfred Tissler - 5 years imprisonment
Hans Tolksdorf - acquitted
Wilhelm Vogler - 15 years imprisonment
Johannes Wall - 5 years imprisonment
Albert Weckmueller - 15 years imprisonment
Otto Welke - 10 years imprisonment
Paul Wellnitz - executed
Josef Wennhardt - 8 years imprisonment
Emil Wenzel - 10 years imprisonment
Willy Witt - 10 years imprisonment
Werner Woellnitz - less than 1 year imprisonment
Richard Wohlfeil - less than 1 year imprisonment
Adalbert Wolter - 8 years imprisonment
Johann Wrobel - less than 1 year imprisonment
Hugo Ziehm - 3 years imprisonment
Eduard Zerlin - 12 years imprisonment
Karl Zurell - executed

Leitmeritz (Litomerice) S.S. Listing

Litomerce (Leitmeritz) was a sub-camp of KZ Flossenburg which operated during the second half of WWII in the Czech Republic. The first two listed below were Lagerkommandant from the Aussenlager in Leitmeritz. This listing is obviously very incomplete.

1) Hauptsturmfuhrer Heiling - had typhus in 1945
First name not known.

2) Untersturmfuhrer Benno Bruckner
Born 12/19/1893 in Heinrichsdorf
Died May, 1945

3) Rottenfuhrer Joseph Wurst
Guard at Leitmeritz; tried at Dachau
Born 02/03/1920 Hingerichtet
Executed by hanging 03/10/1947 KL Flossenburg

4) Hauptscharfuhrer Karl Opitz
Camp leader of Richard II
Convicted in Litomerice, circa 1946
Sentenced to life in prison

5) Sturmbannfuhrer Alfons Kraft
Born 1912, died 1971
Later became a German politician. Was never punished.

6) Werner Meyer
In 1944 head of SS-Fuhrungsstab B5 in Leitmeritz.

7) General Werner Freiherr
Born 1889, Suicide on 08/05/1945 at Litomerice

8) Paul Illing
Born in 1904, Died 1984

9) Ernst Kemper

10) Obersturmfuhrer Karl Wilhelm Volkner
Born 1898 in Quedlinburg. Dod not known.
Photo of him in the book: “Krieg, Gesellschaft und KZ: Himmlers SS-Baubrigaden” by Karola Fings.

11) Hermann Ulbricht
Born 5.5.1912 in Coburg
Gestapo Leitmeritz

12) Anton or Antoni Krol
Prisoners' foreman

13) Henryk Matuszkowiak
Member of the Lagerpolizei

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