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Hermann Helbig
Hermann Helbig served as leader of the crematorium detail and member of Kommando 99 at Buchenwald. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald and Wansleben 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
- Hermann Helbig was born in 1902 and served as an SS non-commissioned officer in the concentration-camp system. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- At Buchenwald he led the crematorium detail and belonged to Kommando 99, which murdered Soviet prisoners of war. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He received a death sentence in the main Buchenwald trial and was executed on 19 November 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
Membership in Kommando 99 and his crematorium post are recorded as documented forms of participation; the profile does not assign him the independent decision for every execution or all victims of that unit. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1939 he served at Buchenwald; his posts there included leader of the crematorium detail and member of Kommando 99. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1947 a US military court sentenced him to death for crimes at Buchenwald. (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
A US military court sentenced him to death in the main Buchenwald trial; he was executed at Landsberg on 19 November 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No individual victim total is assigned to Helbig, and his personal participation is limited to the cited findings. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (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.