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Schutzhaftlagerführer (head of the "preventive detention camp") was a paramilitary title of the SS, specific to the concentration and extermination camps Totenkopfverbande ("Death's-Head units"). A Schutzhaftlagerführer was in charge of the economic function of the camp. Usually, there was more than one SS man performing that function at each location due to their enormous size. Schutzhaftlagerführers received orders from the central offices in Berlin, such as DEST run directly by the SS. Prisoners' lives were entirely in their hands. Their orders, which usually involved routine maltreatment of condemned victims, were carried out through "assignments" so they would not have to deal with the dead resulting from them.
The Schutzhaftlagerführer and his adjutant were responsible for the operation of the camp. The Schutzhaftlagerführer had to maintain order, take care of daily routines, roll calls and so on. Under him were the Rapportführer, the Arbeitseinsatzführer and the Oberaufseherin (if there was a women's camp). They were directly responsible for order in the camp and they assigned prisoners to the outside work details. The Blockführer, each of whom were responsible for one or more barracks, were subordinate to them.
Notable peopleName
Highest SS rank attained
US/UK equivalent rank
Concentration camp
SS-'' Sturmbannführer
Major
Auschwitz I
SS- Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Mauthausen
SS- Oberführer
Senior colonel
Dachau
SS- Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Sachsenhausen, Mittelbau-Dora
SS- Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Auschwitz, Flossenbürg
SS- Untersturmführer
Second lieutenant
Ahlem
SS- Obersturmführer
First lieutenant
Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, Bergen-Belsen
SS- Standartenführer
Colonel
Lichtenburg
SS- Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Natzweiler-Struthof
SS- Obersturmführer
First lieutenant
Auschwitz
SS- Sturmbannführer
Major
Dachau
Dachau, Majdanek
Sachsenhausen
SS- Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Neuengamme
SS- Standartenführer
Colonel
Dachau
SS- Obersturmführer
First lieutenant
Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, Neuengamme
SS- Sturmbannführer
Major
Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald
SS- Sturmbannführer
Major
Lichtenburg, Dachau, Buchenwald