Kurt Pompe

Kurt Bruno Pompe ( born March 4, 1899 in Schmiedeberg, Giant Mountains, Lower Silesia, † August 1, 1964 in Schweinfurt ) was in several internment camps commander of the guards or guard -to-do. He held various positions in forced labor camps for Jews in Silesia. The forced labor camp in Silesia are still hardly known to the public.

Life

On October 25, 1918 Pompe was severely wounded in Tournai (Belgium ), and his left leg was amputated below the knee and fitted with a prosthesis. In 1922 he moved with his family to Neisse. Through its political development during the Weimar Republic is not known. From 1942 to April 1944, he is detectable in forced labor camps for Jews in Silesia, which were subject to the SS office Schmelt.

Already in 1942 Pompe was feared in sheet metal hammer ( Upper Silesia ), but nowhere he committed so many crimes as in Brande, where " the lame " from autumn 1942 to August 1943 was wax -to-do. This camp was located near the village Brande (Kreis Falkenberg, Upper Silesia ). It existed from October 1940 and was one of the thirteen western Upper Silesian Reichsautobahn camp for Jews who were under the Supreme construction management Reichsautobahn Wroclaw. Following the acquisition of these camps by the department Schmelt about mid-1942 Brande was through and sickbed, then from early 1943 until its closure in August 1943 one of the most important sickbed this SS organization.

The camp doctor Hans -Werner Wollenberg has described Pompe activities in Brande urgently. Many survivors have reported in interviews of the terrible conditions in Brande, for Pompe was mainly responsible as commander of the guards. After the dissolution of the camp he was awake -to-do in the women's camp in sheet metal hammer and November 1943 to May 1944 camp leader in the forced labor camp Schmiedeberg, which was located in the bush Barbican, in the immediate vicinity of his birthplace Schmiedeberg ( from 1945 Kowary ). In both camps, he terrorized the occupants and was involved in several murders.

A membership in the NSDAP Pompe can not be proved. His denazification application dated April 23, 1946 according to which he was a member of the Organisation Todt and from the autumn of 1944 the transport corps spear, in which he held the rank of a top squad leader. He classified himself as " unloaded " and lived until his death under his real name. In 1951 he moved from Wurzburg to Hochberg at Schweinfurt, where he worked for several years as a worker in the United ball bearing factories AG. As a West German judicial authorities in connection with an investigation came to camp staff numbers in the Schmelt on Pompe, he had already died. Only in 2008 he could be identified.