Ludwig Runzheimer

Ludwig Runzheimer (July 28, 1912 in Gladenbach in Hesse – July 6, 1946) was a German Gestapo officer. He joined the Nazi Party in 1934 and trained as a radio operator in the Luftwaffe.

Runzheimer served in the German border police from November 1938 to the outbreak of war in 1939. He then went into the Geheime Feldpolizei and served in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Russia before he was ordered to Bergen (Norway) in September 1944.

He worked for the Gestapo in Title IV E until the end of the war. He had a central position at the Espeland concentration camp during the last months of the war, where he tortured prisoners.

Runzheimer was sentenced to death for war crimes in Bergen at Gulating Court of Appeal on April 13, 1946. The judgement was not appealed, and he was executed by firing squad at Sverresborg fortress in Bergen on July 6, 1946.