Michael Redwitz Signed Document - Dachau

Michael Redwitz Signed Document - Dachau
Document from Dachau concentration camp written bySS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Redwitz.The letter is addressed to the Headquarters of Dachau Concentration camp andreads:Strength NotificationConcerning the strength report , the entrances and the departures on the21.05.1943.SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Redwitz.Michael Redwitz (born August 14, 1900 in Bayreuth , † May 29, 1946 inLandsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custodycamp leader in several concentration camps . He was sentenced to death onDecember 13, 1945.Redwitz, a trained businessman, was married and had at least four children.He served as a career officer in the Wehrmacht from 1934 to 1938 . InSeptember 1925, Redwitz joined the NSDAP ( membership number 17.607) and wasagain admitted to the party under the same membership number in 1930. Memberof the SS since 1938 (SS-No. 327.349), he was promoted toSS-Hauptsturmführer until 1941 .From mid-December 1938, Redwitz worked in the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he headed the post office from 1940. Subsequently, from thebeginning of February 1941, he was head of the protective custody camp inGusen . At the beginning of April 1942, Redwitz was transferred to theRavensbrück concentration camp as adjutant and protective custody campleader ; then on November 20, 1942 to the Dachau concentration camp. Here hesucceeded Egon Zill First protective custody camp leader and was thereforedirectly subordinate to the camp commandant Eduard Weiter , the otherprotective custody camp leaders were subordinate to him. As the FirstProtective Custody Camp Leader, Redwitz was responsible for the "running" ofthe camp, its internal order and the daily routine with the roll calls andthus for the prison conditions. This included monitoring the execution ofall camp penalties , such as corporal punishment , in order to ensure thatthey were carried out “correctly”. Redwitz was in Dachau until mid-March1944 and then worked in the Buchenwald concentration camp for another 5months . From August 1944 he was deployed as a soldier in the Waffen SS onthe Western Front.After the end of the war, Redwitz and 39 other members of the Dachau camppersonnel were charged on November 15, 1945 in a US military court in themain Dachau trial during the Dachau trials . He was accused of havingoccupied one of the most important positions in the camp hierarchy and ofhaving been responsible for the execution of all prisoner sentences between1942 and 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp . Interrogated as a witnesson his own behalf, Redwitz admitted that he had been present at a total offorty executions.The court ruled on December 13, 1945, all accused of war crimes and theysentenced 36 to death. In the judgment, the monitoring of the execution ofthe camp penalties and the beating of prisoners, including with a whip, weretaken into account as individual excesses by Redwitz. The sentence wascarried out in prison for the war criminals in Landsberg by hanging.This Typed document from Dachau measures 140mm x 210mm