Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Karl-Friedrich Höcker (11 December 1911 Engershausen 30 January 2000) was a SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) and the adjutant to Richard Baer, who was a commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. In 2006, a photo album created by Höcker, with some 140 pictures from his time at Auschwitz, was given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, sparking new interest in his activities as a concentration camp administrator.The youngest of six children, Höcker was born in the village of Engershausen (now part of Preußisch Oldendorf), Germany. His father was a construction worker, who was later killed in action during World War I.