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Arthur Liebehenschel è stato un militare tedesco delle SS. Raggiunse il grado di SS-Obersturmbannführer equivalente a quello di tenente colonnello, e comandante dei campi di concentramento di Auschwitz e Majdanek.
Arthur Liebehenschel ( German: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈliːbəhɛnʃl̩] ⓘ; 25 November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes by the Polish government and executed in 1948.
Arthur Liebehenschel was a high-ranking Nazi party member who served as the commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and Majdanek Extermination Camp. Liebehenschel joined the Nazi Party in 1932, and the SS ( Schutzstaffel) in 1934.
His successors were SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel (November 1943-May 1944) and SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer (May 1944-January 1945).
The best-known defendants were Arthur Liebehenschel, former commandant; Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried.
#DefendantRankFunction1Camp commandant23SS-UntersturmführerCamp Gestapo chief4SS-ObersturmbannführerManager of camp administrationArthur Liebehenschel (25 Nov. 1901 – 24 Jan. 1948), SS Obersturmbannführer, served initially at the Lichtenburg Camp, but since 1937 at the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, at the SS headquarters in Oranienburg. He became commandant of the Auschwitz Main Camp on 11 November 1943.
1 set 2017 · Arthur Liebehenschel was born November 25, 1901 in Posen, now Poznan in Poland but at the time a city in the German Empire. He was too young to serve in World War One and during that period he completed a study in economics and civil administration.
