Margarete Gallinat

Oberaufseherin Margarete Gallinat was the chief supervisor at Kamp Vught, Netherlands. She later became a supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp.[1][2]

Life

Gallinat was born in 1894 in East Prussian Puntigam. [3]

Work as Oberaufseherin

In April of 1940, Gallinat read a newspaper ad for Aufseherin and decided to apply.[3] Two months later she started in Ravensbrück,[4][5] where she worked until the summer of 1943, eventually becoming deputy Oberaufseherin.

references

  1. ↑ Daniel Patrick Brown (2002). The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi Concentration Camp System. Schiffer Pub. ISBN 978-0-7643-1444-5.
  2. ↑ Karolin Steinke; Nationale Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (2009). Züge nach Ravensbrück: Transporte mit der Reichsbahn 1939-1945 : Begleitband zur Ausstellung in der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück. Metropol. ISBN 978-3-940938-27-5.
  3. 1 2 Fraulenger, Het. "Mensen, macht en mentaliteiten achter prikkeldraad: een historisch- sociologische studie van concentratiekamp Vught (1943-1944)". UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository). University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Strebel (2003). Das KZ Ravensbrück: Geschichte eines Lagerkomplexes. Ferdinand Schöningh. ISBN 978-3-506-70123-7.
  5. ↑ Nanda Herbermann (1 September 2000). The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women. Wayne State University Press. pp. 272–. ISBN 978-0-8143-3768-4.
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