Rudolf Beer Signed Document - Auschwitz

Rudolf Beer Signed Document - Auschwitz
Typed document from Auschwitzconcentration camp 2nd Guard Company , it is dated 22 May 1941 , it issigned by Auschwitz Guard and company leader SS-Untersturmfuhrer RudolfBeer. The document reads :K.L. Auschwitz Au. , on 22.May 19412nd Guard Companyto: Headquartersre: Reporting a lost propertyOn May 21, 1941, an SS-Fuhrer whose name I did not know left a book in theguard building.It is the "textbook of ear, nose, and throat diseases" and has no name orinventory entries.It can be given to the owner in the guard building.Signed by Rudolf BeerSS-UntersturmfuhrerRudolf Beer (born February 17, 1911 in Friedland in Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; died 1981 ) was a Czechoslovak teacher and German SSObersturmführer in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .Rudolf Beer was the son of a railway official. After the First World War , the family belonged to the Sudeten German minority in Czechoslovakia . Heattended elementary school and community school. He was trained for fouryears at the German-speaking teacher training institute in Reichenberg .From 1930 to 1938 Beer worked at various German-speaking elementary andcommunity schools in the Sudetenland. In 1934 he did a year of militaryservice in the Czechoslovak Army and was promoted to lieutenant in thereserve. Beer married in 1938. During the Sudeten crisis , he joined theSudeten German Party in April 1938. After the Sudetenland was annexed to theGerman Reich, its party membership was transferred to the NSDAP . In October1938 he became a member of the SS . At the beginning of 1940 he was calledup as a Untersturmführer to the Waffen-SS and was used as a platoon leaderin a skull regiment in occupied Poland and during the conquest of theNetherlands .In October 1940 he was appointed adjutant in the guard battalion in theAuschwitz concentration camp and one year later with the rank ofSS-Obersturmführer as the protective custody camp leader of the men's campin the Ravensbrück concentration camp . During his time in Ravensbrück, initially 300 and in 1944 1,500 men from different nations were imprisonedwho were penned in five barracks and had to do forced labor . He wassubordinate to five SS block leaders and one SS labor service leader, aswell as a network of prison functionaries . He himself was directlysubordinate to the concentration camp commandant Ravensbrück and the latterto the concentration camp inspection in Oranienburg . Because of an argumentwith the commanding officer Fritz Suhren he reported in July 1944 fordeployment to the front in the SS Panzer Division "Wiking" and was takenprisoner at the end of the war.After his release he was sent to political custody in the Ludwigsburg campin June 1946 . The Central Arbitration Chamber of North Württemberg inLudwigsburg classified him as the "main culprit" and sentenced him onNovember 5, 1948 to a ten-year labor camp atonement, which he was supposedto serve in the Ludwigsburg labor camp, on the basis of establishedactivities. The verdict was confirmed on June 14, 1949 by the “CentralAppeals Chamber North Württemberg”. In January 1950, Beer was taken intocustody again and charged before the Stuttgart Regional Court . On July 12,1950, the court added multiple bodily harm in office , extortion oftestimony by hanging on stakes or on the counts Whipping and other criminaloffenses a sentence of 84 years, so that Beer was sentenced to a totalsentence of 15 years in prison and the maximum sentence of ten years of lossof honor . The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court rejected Beer's appeal onJanuary 19, 1951, again referring to Beer's particular inhumanity as a campleader, as evidenced by witness statements. In a second trial for the murderof a prisoner in the subcamp at Gut Dahmshöhe in July 1943, Beer had to beacquitted by the Stuttgart Regional Court for lack of sufficient evidence.Beer was released again in 1955 and died in 1981.This Typed document from Auschwitz measures 145mm x 210mm