Friedrich Franz Bauer

Friedrich Franz Bauer (1903–1972) was a German SS photographer known for his images of propaganda made for the Nazis.

[1] Bauer trained as a photographer in the studio of his parents in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bavaria.

Due to financial difficulties his photography studio was acquired by the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Department) and renamed "Friedrich Franz Bauer GmbH" in 1937.

During the Nazi regime he was used to document events due to his personal contacts with Heinrich Himmler.

On July 16, 1933, Bauer wrote and published a propaganda photo report about the Dachau concentration camp in the journal Munich Illustrated Press.