Margarete Freinberger was an SS supervising wardress in two concentration camps during the last two years of World War II.
Margarete Freinberger was born on June 11, 1919 in Grieskirchen, Austria. In Septmeber 1944, because the Mauthausen camp had opened a women's section, she was called to serve in the Mauthausen camp in Austria. Immediately Margarete began impressing her superiors with her abuse so Jane Bernigau promoted her to chief wardress Oberaufseherin. In November 1944, Margarete became second in charge of 500 women prisoners at the Lenzing subcamp, located close to Mauthausen. There she continued her abuse and cruelness. As the Americans swept through Austria the young SS woman fled Lenzing. She was never prosecuted for her crimes in the Mauthausen and Lenzing camps.
The tiny subcamp at Kratzau II in Poland was overseen by Gertrud Becker, Lenzing by Lagerfuhrerin Schmidt and Oberaufseherin MargareteFreinberger.
Chief wardresses there were Jane Bernigau, Margarete Gallinat, a woman named Small, Maria Mandel, Johanna Langefeld, Greta Boesel, Else Grabner, Kaethe Hoern, Erna Rose, Klein Plaubel, while Dorothea Binz served as their assistant.
The vicious and cruel Ruth Closius headed Uckermark, Margarete Gallinat oversaw Vught, Susanne Hille was head female guard at Unterluess (or Vueterluss), and Hilde Hahn oversaw the Flossenburg subcamp at Zwodau.
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