Hermann Florstedt

Arthur Hermann Florstedt
Born	18 February 1895
Died	15 April 1945 (aged 50) Buchenwald camp, Nazi Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1931–1945
Rank	SS-Standartenführer
Commands held	Majdanek concentration camp

Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945), member of the NSDAP, was a German SS commander, war criminal and convicted war profiteer. He became the third commander of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. Florstedt was convicted of corruption and executed by the regime in April 1945.

World War II

Florstedt joined the SS in 1933 achieving the rank of Standartenführer in 1938. He served at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 till 1942. He was appointed the third chief of Majdanek extermination camp in October 1942 to replace SS-Sturmbannführer Max Koegel.

Florstedt was investigated by SS Judge Georg Konrad Morgen and charged by the Schutzstaffel (SS) with embezzlement and arbitrarily killing of prisoner witnesses.^[1] Florstedt was one of two Majdanek commandants put on trial by the SS in the course of the camp operation.^[2] He was charged corruption (wholesale stealing from the Third Reich); he had access to valuables stolen from Holocaust victims killed at death camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Theses valuables were stored and processed at Majdanek.

He was replaced by the interim commander Martin Gottfried Weiss. Florstedt was executed by the SS on 15 April 1945.^[3]

Notes

1. "Konrad Morgen". Investigating corruption within the SS. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
2. Staff Writer (2006). "Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Overview". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ushmm.org. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
3. "Procesy zbrodniarzy (Trials of war criminals) 1946–1948". Wykaz sądzonych członków załogi KL Lublin/Majdanek. KL Lublin. Retrieved 2013-04-14.