Hildegard Martha Lächert (19 March 1920 – 14 April 1995)[1] was a female guard, or Aufseherin, at several concentration camps controlled by Nazi Germany.

Lächert sat next to three other former SS women, Alice Orlowski, Therese Brandl, and Luise Danz.

Because of her war crimes in Auschwitz and Płaszów, the former guard and mother of two surviving children was given a sentence of 15 years in prison.

[5] One former prisoner, Henryka Ostrowska, testified, "We always said blutige about the fact that she struck until blood showed," giving her the nickname "Bloody Brigitte"[6] (Krwawa Brygida in Polish).

Another survivor, Maria Kaufmann-Krasowski, testified that when Lächert assigned her to wash floors she beat her with a whip and referred to her as "a piece of filth.

"[7] For her part in selections to the gas chamber, complicity to the murder of 1196 prisoners, releasing her dog onto pregnant inmates[3] (in one example ‘targeting the most vulnerable parts of her body in an act of cruel desecration and killing of her unborn child’[8]) and her overall abuse, the court sentenced her to 12 years imprisonment[9] in the Majdanek trials.