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Richard Baer (9 September 1911 – 17 June 1963) was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
- 1933–1945
Richard Baer was a Nazi official with the rank of SS -Sturmbannführer and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. Baer was born in Bavaria in 1911; originally a confectioner, he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930.
They arrived on May 26, 1944, the same day that professional SS photographers photographed the arrival of the train and the selection process. Richard Baer and Karl Höcker arrived at Auschwitz mere days before the arrival of this transport.
Richard Baer at a ceremony. September 1, 1944, Richard Baer ceremonially accepts a copy of the construction plans from the Chief of the Central Construction Directorate of the Waffen SS, SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Bischoff, celebrating the opening of an SS military hospital (SS-Lazarette).
Höcker and Auschwitz I commandant Richard Baer are there, shown in conversation with Höss, Kramer, and Mengele, along with other officers who have yet to be identified. Perhaps the most extraordinary photograph depicts an accordionist leading a sing-along for approximately 70 SS men.
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Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp.
On 1 February 1945, the 33-year-old Richard Baer became the new commander of the Mittelbau concentration camp. He had come to the Southern Harz Mountains at the end of January along with thousands of inmates, hundreds of other members of the SS and the entire general staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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