1944, and appointed commandant of the Majdanek extermination camp on 19 May 1944, succeeding Martin Gottfried Weiss . The camp was evacuated because of the  Soviet  advance on  Nazi Germany , and Liebehenschel was ordered to  Trieste, Italy  to the office of  Odilo Globocnik , Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) for