 Wilhelm Hammann

Willhelm Hammann (25 February 1897 in Biebesheim am Rhein – 26 July 1955 in Rüsselsheim) was a German educator and communist politician.A town councilor and a member of the provincial parliament of Hesse in the 1920s, he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1945.In April 1945, Hammann, who was the "blockälteste" of the children's barrack, sabotaged the planned movement of Jews on a death march to a certain extermination.