Heinrich Forster

Heinrich Georg Forster (14 January 1897 in Langenaltheim – 25 October 1955 near Hanau) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer (1941) and Lagerführer in Nazi concentration camps.

Biography

Heinrich Forster was a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party membership 829,889) and the SS (SS-number 36,647).[1]

Forster began his service in the late 1930s at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. From May 1940 to August 1942 Forster was Schutzhaftlagerführer in KZ Sachsenhausen.[2] Then Forster worked as a Lagerführer from late 1942 to mid-1943 at KZ Drütte, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp.[3] Subsequently, Forster was Lagerführer at the Schaluen subcamp of the Kovno Ghetto.[4] From January 1944 to July 1944, Forster was Schutzhaftlagerführer at Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.[5]

From the end of July 1944 to September 1944 he was Lagerleiter at Kaufering concentration camp. Then he was Lagerführer in the Flossenbürg satellite camp of Hersbruck until December 1944.[6] Due to military disobedience, he was then allegedly transferred to a Waffen-SS division until the end of the war.

After the war, Forster went underground and lived under the pseudonym Hans Reich undetected in Hessen.[7] Forster alias Reich died in October 1955 near Hanau due to a bicycle accident.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Heinrich Forster at www.dws-xip.pl
  2. ↑ Hermann Kaienburg: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. Beck, München 2006 (Reihe, Band 3) ISBN 978-3-406-52963-4, ISBN 3-406-52963-1, p. 40
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors. Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. Beck, München 2007 (Reihe, Band 5) ISBN 978-3-406-52963-4, ISBN 3-406-52965-8, p. 508
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors Beck, München 2008 (Reihe, Band 8) ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1, p. 210
  5. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Produktion des Todes: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora, Göttingen 2001, p. 651
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 159.
  7. ↑ Cf. Edith Raim: Westdeutsche Ermittlungen und Prozesse zum KZ Dachau und seinen Außenlagern, in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer Prozesse – NS-Verbrechen vor amerikanischen Militärgerichten in Dachau 1945 - 1948, Göttingen 2007, p. 227
  8. ↑ Edith Reim: Außenlager Kaufering, in: Wolfgang Benz / Barbara Distel: Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Band II: Frühe Lager, Dachau, Emslandlager. München 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3, p. 370

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