Hermann To track

Hermann Pister (February 21st 1885 with Lübeck - September 28th 1948 with Landsberg amndt Lech) was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel which occupied the functions of commander of the camp of Buchenwald of 1942 with 1945.

Biography

Hermann To track, born on February 21st, 1885 in Lübeck, wire of a secretary of finances, it enters at 17 years the navy of war where it is useful with interruptions, until the end of the First World War. In 1918 it begins an automobile training of mechanics, becomes salesman of cars and chief of businesses. In 1931 it enters with the NSDAP and the Group motorized S. Its course passes by stations of führer for the 19th standard motorized S (1933), then the 1st standard (1936) then the motorized procession of Himmler (1937). In 1939 he becomes commander in charge of the control of the camps of rehabilitation by the work (Erziehungslager) of the west, then ordering special camp Hinzert. „After there having proven reliable “writes Richard Glücks, inspector of the concentration camps, „it obtains on January 10th, 1942 the command of Buchenwald which its predecessor entirely had " pourri". To track has with much energy, with the greatest heat with work and with its experiment makes of Buchenwald a model camp. “ From the point of view S, that means before very that Buchenwald as a „camp - place of production “functions perfectly. At the end Pister war is Oberführer, a rank ranging between colonel and general, Arrêté in 1945 and condemned to died in 1947 in Dachau by an American military tribunal, it dies on September 28th, 1948 in the prison of Landsberg of an infarction.

External bonds

Lawsuit of Buchenwald
Memorial of the special concentration camp of Hinzert

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