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Theodore Eicke. Theodore Eicke, the son of a station master, was born in Hampont (close to Château-Salins), Alsace-Lorraine, on 17th October, 1892. Eicke joined the German Army and during the First World War won the Iron Cross for bravery. He was active in the Freikorps before becoming an inspector in the Thuringian police force.
Theodor Eicke Theodor Eicke * 17.10.1892 Hampont* / † 26.02.1943 Charkov / SS-Obergruppenführer a generál zbraní-SS
Theodore Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a politician in Nazi Germany. Eicke was the second commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp, and went on to become the Inspector of Concentration Camps, overseeing their reorganisation under the SS. He later also became the commander of the SS Death’s Head Units, the armed SS officers ...
Theodor Eicke was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.
In the spring of 1933, several prisoners were murdered on his watch. With the camp drawing much unwelcome scrutiny, Himmler removed Wäckerle and designated Theodor Eicke as the new commandant. Harold Marcuse, one of the leading scholars on the long history of the Dachau camp, gives this apposite description of Eicke, the one-time army paymaster:
Media in category "Theodor Eicke" The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B17532, Heinrich Himmler und Theodor Eicke.jpg 540 × 792; 48 KB
SS officer Theodor Eicke visits the Lichtenburg camp. Scene during a visit by SS officer Theodor Eicke to the Lichtenburg camp in March 1936. Lichtenburg was one of the first concentration camps established in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. When SS chief leader Heinrich Himmler ...
