Image by Didgeman on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Oswald Pohl
Sign in to saveAlso known as Oswald Ludwig Pohl
German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Kaufmännische oder kameralistische Buchführung?
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,734x
- Renoprotective Effect of the Angiotensin-Receptor Antagonist Irbesartan in Patients with Nephropathy Due to Type 2 Diabetes
· 2001 · cited 4,670x
- Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
· 2014 · cited 3,103x
- The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis
· 1997 · cited 2,809x
- DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours
· 2018 · cited 2,674x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.”
- “I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.”
- “I accept responsibility for the camps, but as far as measures against the Jews, I had nothing to do with them. Those orders came from the RSHA. Himmler sent orders to Kaltenbrunner, who transmitted them to Mueller of the Gestapo, and the latter had the entire extermination program under him. That was the way all of Himmler's orders went. I did not participate in the murder of the Jews.”
- “I had eleven main concentration camps under my command. From these eleven camps, internees were sent to other so-called labor camps. That was my job. I had nothing to do with the final solution of the Jews. That was an act done by camp personnel such as the commandants. Of course, the center of all those orders for the extermination of the Jews was Mueller of the Gestapo, who received his orders from Kaltenbrunner, who carried out the plans of Himmler.”
- “What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.”
- “I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- 30 June 1892 ( 1892-06-30 ) , Duisburg -Ruhrort, Rhine Province , Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 7 June 1951 (1951-06-07) (aged 58), Landsberg Prison , Landsberg am Lech , West Germany
- Cause of death
- Execution by hanging
- Occupation
- Head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
- Known for
- Business administrator of Nazi concentration camp system
- Criminal status
- Executed
- Motive
- Nazism
- Convictions
- War crimes , Crimes against humanity , Membership in a criminal organization
- Trial
- Pohl Trial
- Criminal penalty
- Death
- Victims
- Millions
- Span of crimes
- 1939–1945
- Country
- Multiple countries across Europe
- Location
- Nazi concentration camps
- Date apprehended
- 27 May 1946
- Allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- Branch
- Waffen-SS
- Rank
- SS- Obergruppenführer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Pohl, Oswald.JPG
Show 6 more facts
- date of death
- 1951-06-07
- Commons category
- Oswald Pohl
- date of birth
- 1892-06-30
- name in native language
- Oswald Pohl
- birth name
- Oswald Ludwig Pohl
- P8168
- U-854
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~18 min read
Article
Oswald Ludwig Pohl ( German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Holocaust.
Born in Duisburg, Pohl served in the Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea and at the Flemish coast during the First World War. After the war he worked with the Freikorps and took part in the Kapp Putsch, after which he joined the Reichsmarine. Pohl became a member of the SA in 1925 and a Nazi Party member a year later. He subsequently became a close associate of Heinrich Himmler and established himself as a capable administrator within the SS. In 1942, Himmler appointed Pohl chief of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, placing him in charge of all concentration camps and their exploitation of forced labour, SS and Police building projects and SS economic enterprises; he was also made SS-Obergruppenführer. At the time he was the third most powerful SS figure after Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.