Georg Lörner


Georg Nikolaus Lörner was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served as Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl, of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.

Concentration camps

The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office was set up to manage the quartermaster and paymaster duties of the SS, including originally the Waffen-SS, as well as handling the various financial enterprises of the
Allgemeine-SS, and the concentration camps.
Amtsgruppe B, was responsible for the supply of food and clothing for concentration camp inmates, and for supplying food, uniforms, equipment and camp quarters for the concentration camp guards of the SS-Totenkopfverbände.
Oswald Pohl was chief of Amtsgruppe W and Lörner was his deputy. Amt W was responsible for the operation and maintenance of various industrial, manufacturing, and service enterprises throughout Germany and the occupied countries, as well as providing clothing for concentration camp inmates.

Trial

Loerner was a defendant along with his brother Hans Lörner in U.S.A. v. Pohl et al. He was found guilty on counts 2, 3, 4, and was given the death penalty which was reduced to life in prison then commuted to 15 years. He was released from Landsberg prison on 31 March 1954; his brother received ten years and was released in 1951.