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Max Koegel
Max Koegel served as concentration-camp commandant. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg, Germany 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
- Max Koegel: 1895-10-16–1946-06-26. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- As commandant of Ravensbrück, Max Koegel ran the camp during the expansion of its prison block and selections under Aktion 14f13; he later held commandant posts at Majdanek and Flossenbürg. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- He was captured in 1946 but died by suicide in US custody on 1946-06-26 before trial; no judgment was issued against him. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As commandant of Ravensbrück, Max Koegel ran the camp during the expansion of its prison block and selections under Aktion 14f13; he later held commandant posts at Majdanek and Flossenbürg. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- He was captured in 1946 but died by suicide in US custody on 1946-06-26 before trial; no judgment was issued against him. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
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 captured in 1946 but died by suicide in US custody on 1946-06-26 before trial; no judgment was issued against him. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Ravensbrück Memorial, cited passage; Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Sources
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