Hermann Baranowski


Hermann Baranowski was a German politician and military figure. A member of the Nazi Party, he is best known as the commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death's Head unit. He was the Schutzhaftlagerführer of Dachau concentration camp in 1938, where he had been sent as compound leader in 1936. He served as the SS-Oberführer of Sachsenhausen concentration camp from February 1938 - September 1939. He was especially sadistic.