Lichtenburg concentration camp

Lichtenburg
Concentration camp
Lichtenburg Castle
Location of Lichtenburg within Germany
Coordinates	51°39′45″N 12°55′55″E / 51.66250°N 12.93194°E / 51.66250; 12.93194
Known for	One of the first Nazi concentration camps
Location	Prettin, Saxony
Operated by	Nazi Germany
Commandant	Theodor Eicke (May 1934 – July 1934) Bernhard Schmidt (de) (July 1934 – March 1935) Otto Reich (de) (March 1935 – March 1936) Hermann Baranowski (April 1936 – October 1936) Hans Helwig (November 1936 – July 1937) Alexander Piorkowski (July 1937 – December 1937)
Operational	13 June 1933–May 1939
Inmates	Before 1937, male political prisoners; after 1937, female political prisoners
Number of inmates	More than 2,000
Notable inmates	Lina Haag

Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in the Province of Saxony. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and was operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939.^[1] It held as many as 2000 male prisoners from 1933 to 1937 and from 1937 to 1939 held female prisoners.^[2] It was closed in May 1939, when the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women was opened, which replaced Lichtenburg as the main camp for female prisoners.^[3]