Hermann Baranowski

Hermann Baranowski (11 June 1884 in Schwerin – 5 February 1940 in Aue) was a German politician and military figure. A member of the Nazi Party, he is best known as the commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death's Head unit.[1] He was the Schutzhaftlagerführer of Dachau concentration camp in 1938, where he had been sent as compound leader in 1936.[2] He served as the SS-Oberführer of Sachsenhausen concentration camp from February 1938 - September 1939. He was especially sadistic.[3][4]

References
  1. Tuchel, Konzentrationslager, S. 371. Die bei Tuchel angegebenen Ränge sind auf die zum Zeitpunkt der Ernennung gebräuchlichen Bezeichnungen geändert.
  2. Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence - Christopher Dillon - Google Books
  3. Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand - Benjamin Carter Hett - Google Books
  4. Werner Scholem: A German Life - Mirjam Zadoff - Google Books
Military offices
Preceded by
SS-Standartenführer Otto Reich		 Commandant of Lichtenburg concentration camp
April 1936 – October 1936		 Succeeded by
SS-Standartenführer Hans Helwig
Preceded by
SS-Oberführer Hans Helwig		 Commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
February 1938 – September 1939		 Succeeded by
SS-Oberführer Hans Loritz
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