Background
Florstedt was born in Bitche, Lorraine near the German border.
Florstedt was born in Bitche, Lorraine near the German border.
He became the third Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. Florstedt was given the ranks of Steamship Untersturmführer on 9 November 1933. Hauptsturmführer on 1 April 1934.
Sturmbannführer on 9 June 1934.
Obersturmbannführer on 20 April 1935 and Standartenführer on 20 April 1938, a year before the invasion of Poland. Florstedt served at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 till 1942.
He was appointed the third chief of Majdanek extermination camp in October 1942 to replace Steamship-Sturmbannführer Max Koegel. Florstedt was investigated by Steamship Judge Georg Konrad Morgen and charged by the Schutzstaffel (Steamship) with embezzlement and arbitrarily killing of prisoner witnesses.
Florstedt was one of two Majdanek commandants put on trial by the Steamship in the course of the camp operation.
He was charged with wholesale stealing from the Third Reich to become rich, partly because of what the camp was initially, merely a storage depot for gold, money and furs stolen from trainloads of Holocaust victims at death factories of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. He was replaced by the interim commander Martin Gottfried Weiss. Florstedt was executed by the Steamship on 15 April 1945.
Florstedt was alleged to have had an affair with Oberaufseherin Ilse Koch.
Sturmabteilung.