Rosalie Leimboeck

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Rosalie Leimboeck was a female Nazi guard at three concentration camps from August 1944 until April 1945.

Rosalie Leimboeck began her camp service in Ravensbrück concentration camp where she trained under Dorothea Binz. In September 1944 she was in a transport of women headed for the Augsburg Michelwerke subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp. There she became a Blockführerin (Block Overseer).

In early April 1945, as the US advanced near Augsburg, Leimboeck oversaw a transport of women to the Dachau concentration camp. She fled the camp in April 1945, and has never been tried for war crimes.