Max Frauendorfer

Confirmed findings

• Frauendorfer headed the Main Labour Department of the General Government administration.
• His department organised labour offices and the compulsory recruitment and deportation of workers from occupied Poland.
• The labour administration supplied people to the Reich's forced-labour system while police forces carried out coercive round-ups.

Place in the chain of responsibility

Frauendorfer's agency was administrative and logistical: his department organised the machinery that classified, recruited and transferred forced labourers. It must be distinguished from police units that conducted raids and from Fritz Sauckel's central Reich authority.

Key events and mechanisms

• The General Government built a network of labour offices under the department he led.
• That administration organised compulsory acquisition and deportation of labour to the Reich.
• After the war Frauendorfer was interned but did not receive a criminal conviction for this system.

Postwar accountability

Frauendorfer was interned after Germany's defeat, then released without conviction for the forced-labour administration in occupied Poland. He continued a professional career in West Germany.

Limits of the evidence

Sources

The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.

• bildung-ns-zwangsarbeit.de
• Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project
• deutsche-biographie.de