Franz Konrad ( SS officer ) Franz Konrad ( born 1 March 1906 Liesing – executed 6 March 1952 in Warsaw ) was an Austrian " SS - Hauptsturmführer " ( captain ) and an administrative officer responsible for the " Werteerfassung " or " valued acquisitions " in the Warsaw Ghetto . He earned the nickname " the King of the Warsaw Ghetto " . Career . Franz Konrad was the middle class son of a miner . After school , Konrad obtained a business degree . He worked with various export firms as bookkeeper . He soon " demonstrated his proclivity for criminal action when he was caught stealing money from his employer . Not only did he lose his job but he was also imprisoned for three months in 1932 . Out of jail and out of work , Konrad drifted for a few weeks until his former defense lawyer helped him join the ( then ) illegal Austrian SS ( number 46 , 204 ) in January 1933 " . Thereafter , he joined the Nazi party with membership number : 1 , 085 , 499 . Konrad , a member of the Lebensborn , was married in 1931 and subsequently became the father of three children . After 19 June 1933 Austria banned the Nazi party and Franz Konrad participated in the attempted coup in July 1934 . Konrad was arrested and detained in Wöllersdorf - Steinabrückl . In July 1935 he fled to Nazi Germany and entered the SS camp in Weisshenfeld for military training as a member of the " SS - Verfügungstruppe " . He returned to Austria following the " Anschluss " in April 1938 as a full - time SS leader and administrative officer of the SS - section XXXV , Sturmbann III / 94 ( SS " - Führer und Verwaltungsführer des SS - Abschnitts XXXV , Sturmbann III / 94 " ) . In January 1939 Konrad was appointed " SS - Untersturmführer " . In November 1939 , after the outbreak of World War II , Franz Konrad was convened as a full - time administrative officer of the SS and " SS - Oberscharführer der Waffen SS " in Warsaw . In a further development in the management school at the " 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler " , Konrad was responsible for the construction and establishment of accommodation for troops and also the acquisition of goods for these troops in Warsaw . In June 1941 , Franz Konrad was attached to Hermann Fegelein ' s cavalry and involved in Operation Barbarossa . In July 1941 , he was promoted to the rank of " SS - Obersturmführer " . In July 1942 he returned to Warsaw and became an administrative manager for the acquisition ( theft ) of Jewish property and chattels in the Warsaw Ghetto where he earned the nickname " the King of the Warsaw Ghetto " . This was under the direct supervision of SS and Police Leader ( " SS und Polizeiführer " ) in Warschau " SS - Oberführer " Ferdinand von Sammern - Frankenegg , who was responsible for the requisition , sorting and routing of Jewish assets , funds , equipment and machinery . In Warsaw he is " alleged to have kept the Polish aristocrat Countess Barbara Kalewska as his personal mistress . " On 1 April 1943 Konrad was reassigned to the SS and Police Leader ( " SS und Polizeiführer " ) in Lublin " SS - Obergruppenführer " Odilo Globocnik and employed in the " Ostindustrie GmbH " . From there , he returned to SS and Police Leader ( " SS und Polizeiführer " ) in Warschau " SS - Oberführer " Ferdinand von Sammern - Frankenegg in the Warsaw Ghetto . During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising Konrad took part in the crackdown . In the rest of 1943 Konrad was busy with the review of the POW camp at Wlodawa which was transformed into a labor camp . In addition he was involved with the acquisition of valuables in the ghetto in Bialystok , and also the relocation of the machinery in the rest of the Warsaw Ghetto . At the end of 1943 Konrad finished his work for " Ostindustrie GmbH " and from 3 January 1944 onwards Franz Konard was employed as administrative head of the SS office in " Schloss Fischhorn " near Zell am See . In February 1944 he was promoted " SS - Hauptsturmführer " . He is alleged to have maintained Martha von Broskowitz as both personal secretary and mistress there . There , at Fishhorn castle , " SS - Standartenführer " Josef Spacil " lavished 500 , 000 Reichsmarks , 2 , 500 dollars and 1 , 550 Swiss francs on a certain Franz Conrad . " This was mostly money from the Berlin Reichsbank intended for some use after the war and to pay troops , but Josef Spacil buried much of the loot and it was alleged that Konrad had done likewise with some of the funds he received . Postwar . After the war , Konrad was arrested and convicted in the trial of " SS - Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen SS und Polizei " Jürgen Stroop for participating in the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto . On 6 March 1952 Konrad was executed by hanging in Warsaw together with Stroop . Konrad ' s wife Agnes was not notified .