Georg Nikolaus Lörner (18 February 1899 – 21 April 1959) was a German SS functionary during the

Nazi era Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. He served as Deputy Chief under

Oswald Pohl Oswald Ludwig Pohl (; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in ...

, of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.

Concentration camps

The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA) was set up to manage the quartermaster and paymaster duties of the SS, including originally the Waffen-SS, as well as handling the various financial enterprises of the Allgemeine-SS, and the concentration camps. Amtsgruppe B, was responsible for the supply of food and clothing for concentration camp inmates, and for supplying food, uniforms, equipment and camp quarters for the concentration camp guards of the

SS-Totenkopfverbände ''SS-Totenkopfverbände'' (SS-TV; ) was the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. While the ''Totenkopf'' was the univer ...

was chief of Amtsgruppe W and Lörner was his deputy. Amt W was responsible for the operation and maintenance of various industrial, manufacturing, and service enterprises throughout Germany and the occupied countries, as well as providing clothing for concentration camp inmates.

Trial

Loerner was a defendant along with his brother Hans Lörner (b. 1893, Office 1, Office Group A) in ''U.S.A. v. Pohl et al''. He was found guilty on counts 2 (war crimes), 3 (crimes against humanity), 4 (membership in a criminal organization), and sentenced to death. This was reduced to life in prison in 1948, then 15 years in 1951. He was released from Landsberg Prison on 31 March 1954; his brother received ten years and was released in 1951.U.S.A. v. Pohl et al.

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