Cornelius Schwanner
Cornelius Schwanner (born September 25, 1884 in Mondsee , † October 15, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was an Austrian war criminal . He was one of the guards at the Flossenbürg concentration camp and, as SS-Hauptscharführer, was the command leader of the Johanngeorgenstadt and Obertraubling satellite camps .
Schwanner came from Austria and became a member of the Waffen-SS in September 1939 and as such was accepted into the guards of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. In December 1943 he became the commanding officer in the Johanngeorgenstadt subcamp set up in a former furniture factory. In January 1945 he was transferred to Obertraubling, where he was taken prisoner at the end of the war.
In the Flossenbürg main trial , the war crimes trial of the United States Army in the American zone of occupation at the military court in Dachau , which took place from June 12, 1946 to January 22, 1947 in the Dachau internment camp , the trial against him was opened in November 1946, in which he was sentenced to death. The hanging execution took place on October 15, 1948 in War Criminals Prison No. 1 in Landsberg.
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X .
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| SURNAME | Schwanner, Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian war criminal and SS-Hauptscharführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mondsee |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1948 |
| Place of death | Landsberg am Lech |