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Franziska Hoengesberg
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'''Franziska Hoengesberg''' (born
February 6 1900) was an
Schutzstaffel SS guard at two
concentration camps during
World War II.
Franziska Hoengesberg was born Franziska Aatforst (or Autforst) in
Essen,
Germany on
February 6,
1900. In
1944, as
Buchenwald built a subcamp in Essen, Hoengesberg's hometown, she applied with the camp office there to become a camp guard. The SS accepted her into the
SS ranks and sent her, as an SS member to the Buchenwald camp near
Weimar and
Erfurt. There she became a
Blockfuhrerin (Barrack Overseer). Soon after, Hoengesberg was assigned to the Essen subcamp in her hometown as a Blockfuhrerin. In April
1945, she walked out of the camp and back home with the arrival of the American
Army. She has never been prosecuted for war crimes.
Category:1900 births Hoengesberg, Franziska
Category:Possibly living people Hoengesberg, Franziska
Category:Female Nazis Hoengesberg, Franziska
Category:Personnel of Nazi concentration camps Hoengesberg, Franziska