Josef Kollmer (26 February 1901 – 28 January 1948) was a German SS functionary during the National Socialist German Workers' Party era who committed m* murder at Auschwitz. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.

Born in Händlern, Bavaria, Kollmer was a farmer by trade. He became a member of the SS on January 1, 1935 after having previously spent several years in the German police force. He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party party in May 1937. In October 1941 he was drafted into the Waffen-SS and was *igned to Auschwitz, where he commanded various guard companies until October 1943. He then temporarily transferred to Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, but returned to Auschwitz in May 1944. Initially he commanded the guard company at Auschwitz main camp, then later the one at Monowitz concentration camp from August to October 1944. During his time at Auschwitz, Kollmer participated in the m* murder of Jews in the Birkenau gas chambers, and carried out executions against the shooting wall between blocks 10 and 11 and at the Buna factory.

Kollmer was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków and was sentenced to death. His sentence was carried out by hanging in Montelupich Prison, Kraków.

Bibliography

• Cyprian T., Sawicki J., Siedem wyroków Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego, Poznań 1962

M* shootings

• Bloody Sunday
• Bronna Góra
• Bydgoszcz
• Dynów
• Erntefest
• Kielce cemetery
• Aktion Krakau
• Palmiry
• Sonderaktion Krakau

Pogroms

• Kielce (1946)
• Jedwabne
• Lviv
• Szczuczyn
• Tykocin
• Wąsosz

Ghettos

• Będzin
• Białystok
• Brest
• Częstochowa
• Grodno
• Kielce
• Kraków
• Lwów (Lviv pogroms (1941))
• Łódź
• Lubartów
• Lublin
• Międzyrzec Podlaski
• Mizocz
• Nowy Sącz
• Pińsk
• Radom
• Siedlce
• Sambor
• Słonim
• Sosnowiec
• Stanisławów
• Tarnopol
• Wilno
• Warsaw

Other atrocities

• Action T4
• Grossaktion Warsaw
• Human medical experiments

PersonnelOrganizations

• Einsatzgruppen (SS)
• Order Police battalions (Ordnungspolizei)
• WVHA
• RKFDV
• VoMi
• General Government
• Hotel Polski

Collaboration

• Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Estonian Auxiliary Police / 36th Estonian Police Battalion, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Arajs Kommando, Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions, Ypatingasis būrys, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police / Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118)
• Trawniki men

Do*entationTechnical and logistics

• Identification in camps
• Gas chamber
• Gas van
• Holocaust train
• Human medical experimentation
• Zyklon B

Memorials

• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
• Majdanek State Museum
• Sobibór Museum
• International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz
• March of the Living

Righteous Among the Nations

• Polish Righteous Among the Nations (List)
• Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust
• Garden of the Righteous

References