in June 1941 in Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre. In the same year, he organized the shooting of at least 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Loritz became a section leader of the General SS in Klagenfurt. He remained until 1942, when he was removed at the suggestion of Oswald Pohl, leader of the SS-WVHA. He was then sent to oversee camps in Beisfjord, Elsfjord, Rognan and Karasjok in northern Norway where Yugoslavian prisoners were used as forced labour to construct roads and military installations. Arrest and suicide After the war, he was arrested and imprisoned at the internment camp in Neumünster to await trial by the Soviets. Loritz was interned in Neumünster after the war and committed suicide in January 1946. Ranks and promotions Notes Bibliography Dirk Riedel: Ordnungshüter und Massenmörder im Dienst der "Volksgemeinschaft": Der KZ-Kommandant Hans Loritz. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2010, . Rudolf Hoess, Constantine Fitzgibbon, Primo Levi. Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2000. 1895 births 1946 suicides Military personnel from Augsburg Dachau concentration camp personnel Holocaust perpetrators in Germany Holocaust perpetrators in Norway Nazis who committed suicide in prison custody German people who died in Soviet detention Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel SS-Oberführer Nazi concentration camp commandants People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Nazis who committed suicide in Germany Waffen-SS personnel