Max Pauly

Max Pauly
Official Portrait
Military service
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel Totenkopfverbände
Rank	SS Obersturmführer

Max Pauly (June 1, 1907 – October 8, 1946) was an SS Sturmbannführer who was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September, 1939 to August 1942 and commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp and the associated subcamps from September 1942 until liberation in May 1945.

During his tenure as commandant of Neuengamme numerous atrocities occurred including medical experimentation. In 1944 Kurt Heissmeyer conducted experiments on 20 Jewish children in an effort to develop new drugs to treat tuberculosis. The children were brought from Auschwitz specifically for this purpose. The children and their four Jewish caregivers were murdered by being hanged from hooks on the wall in April 1945 in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm School in Hamburg which had been used as a subcamp.

Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes with thirteen others in the Curio Haus in Hamburg which was located in the British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from March 18, 1946 to May 13, 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants. He was executed by hanging (Tod durch den Strang) by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin prison on October 8, 1946.^[1][2]

See also

• Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• Cap Arcona
• Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig

References

1. ^ Ernst Klee: The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich persons: who came before and after 1945. Publisher: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (German)
2. ^ The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922–1945 Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 21, 1989) Language: English ISBN 0306803518 ISBN 978-0306803512

External links

• Neuengamme Museum
• Neuengamme Video

Persondata
Name	Pauly, Max
Alternative names
Short description	SS Sturmbannführer who was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp
Date of birth	June 1, 1907
Place of birth
Date of death	October 8, 1946
Place of death	Hamelin prison, Lower Saxony, Germany