Hermann Baranowski (11 June 1884 in Schwerin – 5 February 1940 in Aue) was a German politician and military figure.
A member of the Nazi Party, he is best known as the commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death's Head unit.
[1] In April 1900, at the age of fifteen, he volunteered for the navy and fought in the First World War, serving aboard the SMS Moltke.
He also had movements where his good nature, his soft heart revealed themselves, and yet he was hard and uncompromisingly strict in all matters of duty.
So he constantly brought home to me how the hard 'must' demanded by the SS had to silence all soft stirrings.This article about a German politician of the defunct Nazi Party is a stub.