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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.
Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945). He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution.
From as early as 1934, concentration camp commandants used prisoners as forced laborers for SS construction projects such as the construction or expansion of the camps themselves. By 1938, SS leaders envisioned using the supply of forced laborers incarcerated in the camps for a variety of SS-commissioned construction projects.
9 de may. de 2024 · Amon Göth (born December 11, 1908, Vienna, Austria—died September 13, 1946, Kraków, Poland) was an Austrian Nazi officer who was commandant of Plaszow concentration camp in Poland.
From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch , also participated with the crimes at Buchenwald.
The commandant of Auschwitz III (known from November 1943 as Monowitz Concentration Camp) was SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schwarz. The commandant had complete authority over the camp and the SS garrison.
On October 1, 1933, Theodor Eicke, commandant at the time of Dachau Concentration Camp and inspector from 1934 of the concentration camps and SS guard divisions, defined the relationship between the camp garrison and the prisoners in instructions that he issued to the SS guard units.
