On September 26, 1942, August Frank, an official of the SS concentration camp administration department directed that all property of the Jews murdered in Operation Reinhard be diverted to this office.
Due to financial difficulties his photography studio was acquired by the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Department) and renamed "Friedrich Franz Bauer GmbH" in 1937.
Georg Nikolaus Lörner (Feb. 18, 1899; München - April 21, 1959; Rastatt) was an SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS, and Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl, of the Wirtschaftsunternehmen im SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ( Main SS Economic and Administrative Department, SS WVHA), chief of Amtsgruppe B,(Division B) of the WVHA, and deputy chief of Amtsgruppe W (Division W) of the WVHA.
At locations like Mauthausen and Gusen at St. Georgen, Pohl managed successfully to make leading armament producers like Messerschmitt GmbH or Steyr-Daimler-Puch fully dependable on deliveries by companies of Amtsgruppe W. Additionally, the SS was producing under contract military clothing and equipment for the Wehrmacht.
SS-WVHA, or SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the Nazi SS
When the WVHA offices in Berlin were destroyed by Allied bombing on April 16, 1945, the WVHA was moved to Born on Darß in Pomerania on the Baltic sea.