Richard Baer

Richard Baer (September 9 1911 - June 17, 1963) was a Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.

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September 9 - 1911 - June 17 - 1963 - Nazi - Auschwitz - Concentration camp - May - 1944 - February - 1945

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Baer was born in Bavaria in 1911; originally a confectioner, he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930. In 1939, he joined the SS-Totenkopfdivision, and was appointed adjutant of Neuengamme concentration camp in 1942. Another year later, in 1943, Baer became adjutant of SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, then chief of the Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt; he took over department D I in November the same year before succeeding Arthur Liebehenschel as commander of Auschwitz from May 11 1944 until the final dissolution of the camp in early 1945.

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Bavaria - 1911 - Dachau - 1930 - 1939 - SS-Totenkopfdivision - Neuengamme - 1942 - 1943 - Oswald Pohl - November - Arthur Liebehenschel - Auschwitz - May 11 - 1944 - 1945

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At the end of the war, Baer fled and lived near Hamburg as Karl Neumann; he was found and arrested in December 1960, and died in detention in 1963.

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December - 1960 - 1963

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He was a member of N.S.D.A.P. (no. 454991) and the SS (no. 44225).

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