Hermann Baranowski was a German politician and military figure. A member of the Nazi Party, he is best known as the commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death's Head unit. He was the commandant of Dachau concentration camp in 1938. He served as the SS-Oberführer of Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May, 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD...

from February 1938 - September 1939.

Due to his husky build, prisoners nicknamed him “Foursquare.”
He is known by Jehovah's Witnesses as one who tried to get Jehovah's Witnesses, who were in the camps for their Christian neutrality, to sign statements rejecting their faith, terrorizing them and having them executed in front of their fellow believers. He never missed an opportunity to poke fun of their God. “I have taken up a fight with Jehovah. We will see who is the stronger, I or Jehovah,” Foursquare had said on March 20, 1938. He died of a terrible illness but his daughter would always answer, when asked what her father died of, that the Bible Students (Jehovah's Witnesses) prayed her father to death.