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Arthur Hermann Florstedt
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Born (1895-02-18)18 February 1895
Bitsch, Bezirk Lothringen, German Empire
Died On or after 5 April 1945
Cause of death Execution by firing squad
Criminal status Executed
Conviction(s) Embezzlement
Criminal penalty Death
Military career
Allegiance  Nazi Germany
Service/branch Flag Schutzstaffel.svg Schutzstaffel
Years of service 1931–1945
Rank SS-Standartenführer
Commands held Majdanek concentration camp
Awards Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914

Honor Cross of World War 1914/1918 SA-Sports Badge in Bronze

NSDAP Party Badge

Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – on or after 5 April 1945), was a German SS commander and a convicted war criminal and war profiteer. He became the third commander of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. Florstedt was convicted of corruption and sentenced to death. Whether he was executed is unknown.

World War II

Florstedt joined the SS in 1933 achieving the rank of Standartenführer in 1938. He served at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 till 1942. He was appointed the third chief of Majdanek extermination camp in October 1942 to replace SS-Sturmbannführer Max Koegel.

Florstedt was investigated by SS Judge Georg Konrad Morgen and charged by the Schutzstaffel (SS) with embezzlement and arbitrary killing of prisoner witnesses. Florstedt was one of two Majdanek commandants put on trial by the SS in the course of the camp operation. He was charged with corruption (wholesale stealing from Nazi Germany); he had access to valuables stolen from Holocaust victims murdered at death camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. These valuables were stored and processed at Majdanek.

He was replaced by the interim commander Martin Gottfried Weiss. Florstedt was allegedly executed by the SS on 5 April 1945, the same day Karl-Otto Koch was executed. However, while Koch's execution has been confirmed, Florstedt's fate remains disputed.

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