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Hermann Florstedt
1895–2000
- Nationality
- German Empire
- Occupation
- military personnel
Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 â 5 April 1945) was a German SS official who served as the third commandant of Majdanek concentration camp from November 1942 to October 1943.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 â 5 April 1945) was a German SS official who served as the third commandant of Majdanek concentration camp from November 1942 to October 1943. Florstedt was a veteran of World War I and involved in right-wing paramilitaries before joining the Nazi Party in 1931. Florstedt rose through the ranks of the SS to hold high-ranking positions at various Nazi concentration camps from 1939, including Buchenwald where he developed a reputation for brutality against prisoners. Florstedt was arrested in 1943 during a corruption investigation into Karl-Otto Koch for stealing the valuables of Holocaust victims at Majdanek. Florstedt was convicted and sentenced to death, but his execution on 5 April 1945 shortly before the end of World War II is unconfirmed and his fate is unknown.
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