Luise Brunner

{{Short description|German concentration camp guard in Auschwitz (1908–1977)}}

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| birth_place = Aidhausen, Germany

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| death_place = Roth (district), Germany

| nationality = German

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| known_for = Chief oberaufseherin of Ravensbrück concentration camp

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Luise Brunner (25 August 1908 – 8 December 1977) was a German concentration camp guard in Auschwitz IIDer Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen ..., Volume 4

edited by Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Angelika Königseder, p. 497 (1942 – late 1944) and the chief oberaufseherin (chief guard) of Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 1944 to April 1945.

Biography

Brunner was born in Aidhausen in 1908. She trained at the Ravensbruck concentration camp during June 1942, and in October of that year she was assigned to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she rose through the ranks to become a Kommandoführerin.{{Cite book |last=Yenne |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqNPJl439dwC&dq=Luise+Brunner&pg=PA231 |title=Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS |date=2010-10-14 |publisher=Quarto Publishing Group USA |isbn=978-1-61060-073-6 |pages=231 |language=en}} At Birkenau, Brunner was feared for her brutality: "A female German teacher – Drechsler – was the Lagerführerin [Stellvertretende Lagerführerin], a German woman named Brunner was the Oberapportführerin and another one called Grese was the Rapportführerin. If they noticed a shawl, a pullover, or stocking they would beat you half-dead."{{Cite web|url=http://www.degob.hu/index2.php?showjk=16|title = Degob.hu}}

During the Seventh Ravensbrück Trial (2 July 1948 – 21 July 1948),Mears, Charlotte. (2020). [http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/50539/ A social history of the Aufseherinnen of Auschwitz] Doctoral dissertation, Kingston University. p. 153. Brunner was tried on charges of mistreatment of inmates of Allied nationality and participation in the selection of inmates for the gas chamber.{{cite book|title=Täterinnen: Frauen im Nationalsozialismus|last=Kompisch|first=Kathrin|page=161|year=2008 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag|isbn=9783412201883}} She was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.{{Cite book |last1=Bazyler |first1=Michael J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BMtRCgAAQBAJ&dq=Luise+Brunner&pg=PA152 |title=Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust |last2=Tuerkheimer |first2=Frank M. |date=2015 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-9924-1 |pages=149–151 |language=en}}The National Archives (TNA), London, UK. Ravensbrück Case no 6, Subseries within WO 235/528- 529B & WO 235/777, The National Archives (TNA), London UK, Case no. 139, UNWCC, Wiener Library, London.

Luise Brunner

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