Anton Kaindl was an SS-Standartenführer

Standartenführer

Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in the so-called Nazi combat-organisations: SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK...

  and commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May, 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD...

 from 1942-1945.

Kaindl joined the army during the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

 in May of 1920 and served until May of 1932, leaving with the rank of sergeant. He worked briefly for a bank in the city of Donauwörth

Donauwörth

Donauwörth is a city in the German State of Bavaria , in the region of Swabia . It is said to have been founded by two fisherman where the Danube and Wörnitz rivers meet...

 until August of 1932, when he took an administrative position with the Reichskuratorium für Jugendertüchtigung (Reich's Board for Youth Fitness). He joined the SS in July 1935 (SS no;241,248) and the Nazi Party in May 1937 (party no; 4.390.500). In November of 1939 he was assigned an administrative position in the SS-Totenkopf

Totenkopf

The Totenkopf is the German word for the death's head and an old symbol for death or the dead. It consists usually of the skull and the mandible of the human skeleton...

 Division. He then was transferred to the administrative department of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps headed by Richard Glucks

Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks was a high-ranking Nazi official. He attained the rank of a SS-Gruppenführer and a Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS and from 1939 until the end of World War II was the head of Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen of the WVHA; the highest-ranking Concentration Camps Inspector in Nazi...

. Kaindl's next transfer was to Sachsenhausen, where he served as commandant until the evacuation of the camp on April 22, 1945.

He was captured by the Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 and put on trial in the Sachsenhausen trial held by the Soviet Military Tribunal in the city hall of Pankow

Pankow

Pankow is the third borough of Berlin. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was merged with the former boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee; the resulting borough retained the name Pankow.- Overview :...

, Berlin

Berlin

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 in October of 1947. He was charged along with Sachsenhausen record keeper Gustav Sorge

Gustav Sorge

Gustav Hermann Sorge Gustav Hermann Sorge Gustav Hermann Sorge (April 24, 1911 (Rydzyna) – 1978 (Rheinbach, prison), nicknamed "Der eiserne Gustav" (The Iron Gustav) for his brutality, was an SS-Hauptscharführer and a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany prior to...

, punishment Blockführer Kurt Eccarius

Kurt Eccarius

Kurt Eccarius was an SS Hauptscharführer who was in charge the of the prison block inside the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1939-1945. He was born in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Eccarius was captured by the British and then handed over to the Soviets...

, camp doctor Heinz Baumkötter

Heinz Baumkötter

Heinz Baumkötter was an SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp doctor in Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof and Sachsenhausen, who conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.Baumkötter was tried in the Sachsenhausen trials by a Soviet military tribunal in 1947 in a trial held in...

 and 10 other SS officers, one civil servant and two prisoner kapos including Paul Sakowski who served as the crematorium foreman and camp hangman from 1941 to 1943, he was found guilty with 11 of the others.

Kaindl was held in the Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen

Hohenschönhausen was a borough of Berlin, that existed from 1985 until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. It was composed by the localities of Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Malchow, Wartenberg and Falkenberg.-Overview:...

 for a month, then sent to the Vorkuta Gulag

Vorkuta Gulag

The Vorkuta Gulag was a Soviet era prison camp located in the Pechora River Basin, in the Komi Republic, part of the Siberian region of Russia, located 1,200 miles from Moscow and 100 miles above the Arctic Circle...

 where he died in the spring of 1948.

Kaindl's Military Promotions
Date	Rank
July 1, 1935	SS-Untersturmführer Untersturmführer Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of Sturmführer which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921...
April 20, 1936	SS-Obersturmführer Obersturmführer Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi party that was used by the SS and also as a rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Assault Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 as the result of an expansion of the Sturmabteilung and the need for an additional rank in...
January 30, 1938	SS-Sturmbannführer Sturmbannführer Sturmbannführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party equivalent to major, used both in the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel...
January 30, 1939	SS-Obersturmbannführer Obersturmbannführer Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS. It was created in May 1933 to fill the need for an additional field grade officer rank above Sturmbannführer as the SA expanded. It became an SS rank at the same time...
November 9, 1943	SS-Standartenführer Standartenführer Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in the so-called Nazi combat-organisations: SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK...