Richard Glücks
| Richard Glücks | |
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| Born |
22 April 1889 Odenkirchen, German Empire |
| Died | 10 May 1945 (aged 56) Flensburg, Germany |
| Allegiance |
 German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Rank | Gruppenführer |
| Service number |
NSDAP #214,805 SS #58,706 |
| Unit | SS-Totenkopfverbände |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II |
| Other work | One of the primary organizers of The Holocaust. |
Richard Glücks (22 April 1889 – 10 May 1945) was a high-ranking Nazi official in the SS. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he was Concentration Camps Inspector (CCI), which became Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen under the WVHA in Nazi Germany. As a direct subordinate of Heinrich Himmler, he was responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates, and was also the supervisor for the medical practices in the camps, ranging from human experimentation to the implementation of the "Final Solution", in particular the mass murder of inmates with Zyklon-B gas. After Germany capitulated, Glücks committed suicide by swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule.
Glücks was born 1889 in Odenkirchen (now part of Mönchengladbach) in the Rhineland. Having completed gymnasium in Düsseldorf, he worked in his father's business, a fire insurance agency. In 1909, Glücks joined the army for one year as a volunteer, serving in the artillery. In 1913, he was in England, and later moved to Argentina as a trader. When World War I broke out, Glücks returned to Germany under a false identity on a Norwegian ship in January 1915 and joined the army again. During the war, he eventually became the commander of an artillery unit and was awarded the Iron Cross I and II. Glücks fought at the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. After the war, he became a liaison officer between the German forces and the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control, the allied body for controlling the restrictions placed upon Germany in the Treaty of Versailles regarding re-armament and strength of their armed forces. Until 1924, he stayed in that position, before joining the staff of the 6th Prussian Division. He also served in the Freikorps.
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