Famous German Women Criminals

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Irma Grese

(Nazi Concentration Camp Guard at Ravensbrück & Auschwitz Who Served as Warden of Bergen-Belsen)

Birthdate: October 7, 1923

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Germany

Died: December 13, 1945

Irma Grese, or the Hyena of Auschwitz, served as an SS guard at the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. She was also the warden of the ladies’ section of the Bergen-Belsen camp and ended up being convicted of torture and murder of prisoners. She was executed at 22.

Ilse Koch

(German War Criminal Who Became One of the First Prominent Nazis Tried by the U.S. Military)

Birthdate: September 22, 1906

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Dresden, Germany

Died: September 1, 1967

Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps. Also known as Beast of Buchenwald, The Bitch of Buchenwald, and Butcher Widow, she was tried by the U.S. military for her sadistic abuse of war prisoners. She died of suicide.

Dorothea Binz

(Officer)

Birthdate: March 16, 1920

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Templin, Germany

Died: May 2, 1947

Greta Bösel

(Nurse)

Birthdate: May 9, 1908

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Wuppertal, Germany

Died: May 3, 1947

Hildegard Lächert

(Nurse)

Birthdate: January 20, 1920

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: 1995 AD

Elisabeth Becker

(Guard)

Birthdate: July 20, 1923

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Nowy Staw, Poland

Died: July 4, 1946

Gerda Steinhoff

(Guard)

Birthdate: January 29, 1922

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Wrzeszcz, Gdańsk, Poland

Died: July 4, 1946

Brigitte Mohnhaupt

(Criminal)

Birthdate: June 24, 1949

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Rheinberg, Germany

Irmgard Möller

(Terrorist)

Birthdate: May 13, 1947

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Bielefeld, Germany

Gudrun Ensslin

(Far-left terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction)

Birthdate: August 15, 1940

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Bartholomä, Germany

Died: October 18, 1977

Wanda Klaff

(Camp guards)

Birthdate: March 6, 1922

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Danzig, Free City of Danzig

Died: July 4, 1946

Jenny-Wanda Barkmann

(Guard)

Birthdate: May 30, 1922

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany

Died: July 4, 1946

Adelheid Schulz

(Criminal)

Birthdate: March 31, 1955

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Lörrach, Germany

Herta Bothe

(Concentration camp guard during World War II)

Birthdate: January 3, 1921

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Teterow, Germany

Died: March 16, 2000

Birgit Hogefeld

(Red Army Faction)

Birthdate: July 27, 1956

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Wiesbaden, Germany

Alice Schwarzer

(Journalist)

Birthdate: December 3, 1942

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Wuppertal, Germany

Herta Ehlert

(Camp guard)

Birthdate: March 26, 1905

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: April 4, 1997

Gesche Gottfried

(Murderer)

Birthdate: March 6, 1785

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Bremen, Germany

Died: April 21, 1831

Beate Zschape

(Terrorist)

Birthdate: January 2, 1975

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Jena, East Germany

Height: 5'5" (165 cm)

Juana Bormann

(Prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938)

Birthdate: September 10, 1893

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Birkenfelde, German Empire

Died: December 13, 1945

Christine Schürrer

(Criminal)

Birthdate: June 30, 1976

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Linda Wenzel

(Member for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)

Birthdate: December 19, 2001

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Saxony, Germany

Emma Zimmer

(Overseer)

Birthdate: August 14, 1888

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Schlüchtern, Germany

Died: September 20, 1948

Beate Schmidt

(Serial killer)

Birthdate: October 5, 1966

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Lehnin, Bezirk Potsdam, Germany

Hilde Liesewitz

(Schutzstaffel Guard)

Birthdate: January 31, 1922

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Grünwald, Germany