Alex Piorkowski

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Alex Bernhard Piorkowski (October 11, 1904, October 22, 1948) was a Nazi criminal, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp and SS-Sturmbannführer. Curriculum vitae

He was born in Bremen. Member of the NSDAP (party card number 161437) and SS (identification no. 8737). Service in concentration camps began in 1937 in Sachsenburg. In 1938 Piorkowski was transferred to Lichtenburg. The Dachau service began on December 1, 1938, initially as a camp manager (Schutzhaftlagerführer). From September 1, 1939 to August 31, 1942, he served as commandant of the Dachau camp. Piorkowski was responsible for the crimes committed during this period in the camp. for the extermination of about 8,000 Soviet POWs, pseudo-medical experiments and the imposition of cruelties on prisoners. The newly arrived prisoners Piorkowski used to say, "They are alive, but they are dead ..."

After the end of the war Piorkowski was sentenced on 6-17 January 1947 by the American Military Tribunal with his detective Heinz Detmers. For his crimes he was sentenced to death for hanging. The sentence was made in October 1948 in the Landsberg prison. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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