Heinz Auerswald was a German lawyer and member of the SS in Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

, which he joined in 1933. He was "Kommissar für den jüdischen Wohnbezirk" ("Commissioner for the Jewish residential district") in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 from April 1941 to November 1942. He along with Hans Biebow

Hans Biebow

Hans Biebow was the chief of German Naziadministration of the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland.Biebow's early life is summarized by the following curriculum vitae which he submitted to the German Ghetto Administration on 10 May 1940:After working as a coffee importer in his hometown of Bremen,...

 adminstrated and managed the Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 15, 1940, in the territory of General Government of the German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity...

's productionalist policy of economic independence providing the Ghetto with essential materials for it inhabitants continual survival until the adoption of the final solution.

He was investigated by the West German government in the 1960s, but was not tried.