Hans Loritz
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Oberführer Hans Loritz joined the SS in 1930 and in 1933, began work as an officer at the Dachau concentration camp. In July 1934 he became the commander of KZ Esterwegen where he was the Commandant for two years before being transferred back to serve as Commandant of Dachau until 1939. Rising to command of Then posted to Sachsenhausen until 1942, before being sent to oversee a camp in Norway.
After the war, he was arrested and imprisoned at the internment camp in Neumünster to await trial by the Soviets, however he committed suicide in February of 1946.
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