Erika Bergmann

Erika Bergmann (born Belling, from 1939 in 1st marriage Erika Koch, born January 3, 1915 in Berlin- Neukölln, † in Guben 1996) was a notorious for their cruelty supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Life

She came from a humble background, was born out of wedlock and raised by her grandparents. 1933/34, she moved to Altstrelitz to work in a hotel. 1935 to 1936 she was in the district hospital Prenzlau as assistant in the infirmary. From 1937 to 1943 she worked in the ammunition factory Fürstensee. On 15 April 1943 she was drafted as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she was, inter alia, a female prisoner after a dog attack in the reeds bleed to death. The end of 1944 she moved to sub-camp New Rohlau. Then she moved to yet subcamp Oederan near Chemnitz. But According to the company, she served in the concentration camp at Magdeburg Genthin until the war ended.

From May 1945 to June 1945, she worked as an auxiliary nurse in the hospital Genthin. In June 1945, she returned to Alt- Strelitz. There she worked from 1953 in a nursing home, where she first noticed about a complaint because of their hardness. Previously, she had been evaluated positively, and even become member of the SED. On November 12 1955 she was sentenced to life imprisonment in Neubrandenburg. Until May 1991, she was serving her sentence at the women's prison Hoheneck. " ... Drag, where forest and water ," was her wish to release.