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Friedrich Opitz
Friedrich Opitz served as manager of a plant using female prisoner labour. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück 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
- Friedrich Opitz was born on 7 August 1898 in Bergen and died on 26 February 1948 in Hamelin. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1940 he managed the Texled textile plant at Ravensbrück concentration camp, where women prisoners performed forced labour. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Trial sources document beatings of women prisoners, orders for violence and the preparation of lists of women sent to Uckermark. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In November 1947 a British court sentenced him to death; he was executed at Hamelin on 26 February 1948. (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 attributes to Friedrich Opitz only the documented role and conduct described in the cited sources, without transferring to him every crime committed by the institutions or units with which he was associated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1940 he managed the Texled textile plant at Ravensbrück concentration camp, where women prisoners performed forced labour. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In November 1947 a British court sentenced him to death; he was executed at Hamelin on 26 February 1948. (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
He was the sole defendant in the second Ravensbrück trial and was executed after conviction. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile distinguishes plant management, personal violence and his role in preparing Uckermark lists. No individual victim total is assigned, and no additional order or act is attributed without an explicit source finding. 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.