About Albert Sauer: Commander of a Nazi Concentration Camp in Germany (1898-1945)
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Albert Sauer (Mistroy, August 17, 1898 – Falkensee, May 3, 1945) was the German commander of the Mauthausen-Gosen concentration camp.
Life
The quarry “Vienna Graben” (1941/42)
Sauer, a carpenter, became a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and the SS in 1931. After a period of unemployment, he became a full-time SS employee.
As a protégé of the concentration camp inspector Theodor Eicke, Sauer was assigned to the SS Guard (Wachrupe) entered the Oranienburg concentration camp in April 1935.From April 1, 1936, he served as Bad Sulza concentration camp. From 1 August 1937 to mid-1938, Sauer was second Regulatory Authority in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and therefore belonged to “Wachtruppe Brandenburg”. From August 1, 1938 to April 1, 1939, he officially served as commander of the then temporary quarry Vienna Graben, so named because the Wienergraben Valley in Granitwerke Mauthausen, where it is located, relies on slave labor from the Mauthausen-Gusen sub-camp . Sauer was removed from camp service in April 1939 due to his negligence and excessive mildness towards camp prisoners.
On February 9, 1939, he was replaced by SS- as camp commandercommando Franz Ziris. During 1941-1942 he held an official position at RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; commissar of the German National Unity Reich).
From September 1942 to April 1943, Sauer again Regulatory Authority in Sachsenhausen. In 1943, Sauer was involved in the destruction of the Riga ghetto. Later, he temporarily served as commander of the Kaiserwald concentration camp, which was evacuated in July 1944. The operation was completed in September 1944. He died of his injuries on 3 May 1945 in Falkensee.
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