Egon Gustav Adolf Zill (28 March 1906 in Plauen – 23 October 1974 in Munich) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) Sturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant. Zill was born in Plauen. [1]

Egon Gustav Adolf Zill was a German Schutzstaffel Sturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant.

Born in Plauen, Egon Zill apprenticed in the baking trades after completing the eighth grade at the public elementary school. He joined the Nazi Party and the SA at age 17. In 1926, Zill joined Saxony’s first SS unit. He worked as an assistant in several companies, and then became a …

From September 1942 until April 1943, SS Major Egon Zill commanded Flossenbürg. SS Major Max Koegel replaced Zill and remained commandant until the end of the war. Subcamps

The commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the highest rank and was the most important member of the camp unit. The commandant directed the camp headquarters and was responsible for all issues of the nazi concentration camp.

Feb 7, 2010 · Egon Zill, by now a member of the Death's Head formation was the Commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp in 1941. Having received his Death's Head unit training in Dachau, he was familiar with all the terrors the camp had to offer its inmates.

Egon Gustav Adolf Zill (28 March 1906 in Plauen – 23 October 1974 in Dachau) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) Sturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant. Zill was born in Plauen.

Der gelernte Bäcker Egon Zill war nur kurze Zeit Lagerkommandant des SS-Sonderlagers/KZ Hinzert. Der in Dachau lebende Zill trat bereits 1923 in die NSDAP ein, kam 1926 zur SS. 1934 gab er seinen Beruf auf und wechselte hauptberuflich zur SS.

Egon Gustav Adolf Zill (* 28. März 1906 in Plauen; † 23. Oktober 1974 in München [1]) war SS-Sturmbannführer und Kommandant verschiedener Konzentrationslager. Der Sohn eines Brauereiarbeiters absolvierte nach achtjährigem Volksschulbesuch eine Bäckerlehre, die er mit der Gesellenprüfung 1923 abschloss.

A court in Munich sentenced Egon Zill to life imprisonment in 1951, but he was freed in 1961 and died in Dachau in 1974. Zill was a senior guard in Dachau Concentration Camp for three months in 1937.