Long Shot: Any documentation out there on an SS officer Richard Baer

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He was the last commandant of Nordhausen and Aushwitz......Thanks Jimmy

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Hello

Richard Baer

Born: 09.09.1911 in Floß/Oberpfalz (Bavaria)

Died: 17.06.1963 in Frankfurt/Main

NSDAP Number: 454991

SS Number: 44225

10/1944 SS Sturmbannführer and Kommandeur K.L.Auschwitz

11/42-05/44 Adjudant of Oswald Pohl (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt)

??/1942 Adjudant of the KL Neuengamme

09/1941 SS Obersturmführer and Chef 1./SS Totenkopf Infanterie Regiment 1 (wia 19.10.1941)

??/1940 platoon leader in the KL Neuengamme

??/1938 platoon leader in the KL Buchenwald

??/1937 platoon leader in the KL Sachsenhausen

01/1935 SS Mann in the 7./SS Standarte "Deutschland"

??/1934 Columbia-Haus

??/1933 Oranienburg

??/1933 Dachau



After the war, he lived with the false name "Karl Neumann" in the near of Hamburg. He was arrested at 20.12.1960 and died after a heart attack in the custody at the 17.06.1963.



Best regards, Fronti

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Thank You

Thanks that fills in a few details I was lacking. Seems I have his SS Degen and Himmler dagger. Liberated by a US vet from the Commandants Quarters at Nordhausen-Dora April 12 1945. Wondered if anymore of his possessions survived the war............Thanks Jimmy