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Albert Lütkemeyer
Albert Lütkemeyer served as first Schutzhaftlagerführer at Neuengamme. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Neuengamme and Riese through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Albert Lütkemeyer was born in Wellingholzhausen on 17 June 1911 and executed at Hameln on 26 June 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In a statement dated 4 November 1946 concerning the execution of 59 Soviet officers, he said that during that execution in October 1941 he had personally shot 5 of them. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A British military court sentenced him to death; he was executed on 26 June 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile combines his command responsibility with a specific admitted act but does not automatically attribute every crime of the camps where he served. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1942 he was first Schutzhaftlagerführer at Neuengamme, where the source attributes the introduction of pole hanging to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 25 February to 7 March 1947 a British military court tried him and imposed a death sentence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
Following the British military court’s judgment, he was executed at Hameln on 26 June 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The figures 59 and 5 refer only to 1 documented execution and his own statement, not to an aggregate victim count. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.