Hermann Florstedt
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Arthur Hermann Florstedt
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SS-Hauptsturmführer Florstedt
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| Born | 18 February 1895 Bitsch, German Empire |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Buchenwald camp, Germany |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service/ |
 Schutzstaffel |
| Years of service | 1931-1945 |
| Rank |  SS-Standartenführer |
| Commands held | Majdanek concentration camp |
Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945), NSDAP card number 488 573 (the SS: 8660), was a Nazi German war criminal and convicted war profiteer. He became the third Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. A World War I veteran, Florstedt was awarded the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany which didn't prevent him from being executed by the SS in 1945.
Early life
Florstedt was born in Bitche, Lorraine near the German border.
Florstedt was given the ranks of SS Untersturmführer on 9 November 1933; Hauptsturmführer on 1 April 1934; Sturmbannführer on 9 June 1934; Obersturmbannführer on 20 April 1935 and Standartenführer on 20 April 1938, a year before the invasion of Poland.
World War II
Florstedt 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 with wholesale stealing from the Third Reich to become rich, partly because of what the camp was initially, merely a storage depot for gold, money and furs stolen from trainloads of Holocaust victims at death factories of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.
He was replaced by the interim commander Martin Gottfried Weiss. Florstedt was executed by the SS on 15 April 1945.[3]
Florstedt was alleged to have had an affair with Oberaufseherin Ilse Koch.
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| Preceded by
SS-Sturmbannführer Max Koegel
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Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp November 1942 – October 1943 |
Succeeded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Martin Gottfried Weiss |
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