Heinz Auerswald 1908 – 1970

Biography

Heinz Auerswald was born on July 26, 1908, in Berlin, Germany, during a period of significant change in European history. His early years unfolded in the capital city during the final decades of the German Empire and the subsequent Weimar Republic. Little detailed information survives about his formative years and personal life, yet his name remains part of the historical record of twentieth-century Germany.

Auerswald became associated with the SS, the paramilitary organization that became central to Nazi Germany’s operations and ideology. The nature and extent of his specific roles and responsibilities within this organization are not fully documented in available sources. His membership placed him within one of history’s most consequential and morally consequential institutions.

Auerswald lived through World War II and its aftermath, witnessing the dramatic transformation of Germany from the Nazi period through its defeat and division. He survived the war itself and continued living in Germany through the postwar years. He spent his final years in Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland region of western Germany, where he died on December 5, 1970, at the age of sixty-two.