Schutzhaftlagerführer

The protective custody camp leader headed the - euphemistically called - Department detention camp ( also referred to as prison camp ) in the Nazi concentration camps. The members of the guards and their leaders were part of the SS Death's Head units, also called skull -SS.

The department " protective custody " was one of the five divisions ( Division I: Command - Staff, Division II: Political Department, Division III: protective custody camp, Division IV: Site Management, Division V: Medical Services ), the perceived different storage- related tasks in the concentration camps. As a " Division III " it was a mandatory part of the command staff in the concentration camps. The officer in charge was under the management of the actual prison camp in the concentration camp. His direct superior was the camp commander, from him he received commands and other instructions to which he was bound. In practice, however, the officer in charge had far-reaching powers in the management of the prison camp. In addition to the organizational and practical management of security guards within the protective custody camp he was responsible for the supervision and maintenance of the camp regulations by the prisoners. He was responsible for requesting official camp penalties for the parent Inspectorate of Concentration Camps. On the part of the function of the prisoners camp elder he was in charge directly.

Depending on the size of the concentration camp, there were up to four protective custody camp leader who ran side by side various storage sections. The first protective custody camp leader also acted as deputy to the camp commander.

Rapportführer

The report leader was the protective custody camp leader reports directly. He was responsible for the collection and reporting of daily inmate population the direction of prisoner orderly room, the division of the block leader as well as the implementation and monitoring of bearings disposed penalties.

Blockführer

The block leaders were commonplace present in the camp and kept from the appeals and told the prisoners to their barracks (block ) a to work commandos or individual tasks. They were responsible for their assigned inmate block and should ensure cleanliness and order there. In the storage practice they had far-reaching action skills. In some camps, they also took in addition the position of the detail commander who monitored their assigned work details. On the side of the block function prisoners oldest was responsible to the block leader.

Labor service leader

The labor service leader, later subordinated to a work assignment officer was responsible for the organization and monitoring of the entire work assignments of inmates. He was responsible for deciding how many and which prisoners were allocated to each work details. The department of labor input was from the early 1940s, an independent department within the concentration camp, where was made ​​there to a considerable extent of forced labor, in particular for third parties.

Kommandoführer

The labor leaders were again placed under the command leader. This was responsible for his assigned work detail. On the part of the prisoner functionaries detachment commander was subordinated directly to the capo or foreman.