Johann Altfuldisch

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Johann Altfuldisch , also Hans Altfuldisch (born November 11, 1911 in Brückenau , † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and temporarily deputy head of a central part of the Mauthausen concentration camp .

biography

Altfuldisch was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 397.051) and belonged to the SS (membership number 14,958). From 1936 he was a member of the camp crew of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and joined the Waffen SS in 1938 . Between 1938 and 1945 he last acted as Second Protective Custody Camp Leader of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Altfuldisch was involved in almost all executions in the camp.

After the end of the war, Altfuldisch was charged before a US military tribunal in the main Mauthausen trial - he was charged with the following acts:

“Hans Altfuldisch, who was the second leader of the protective custody camp in Mauthausen, accused the interrogated witnesses of not only beating prisoners themselves, but also of being present when it came to the murder of certain groups such as B. Allied prisoner of war left. He often took part in executions, just as he was at least present when he was shot in the corner of the neck. Shortly before the liberation, Altfuldisch also ordered gassings in the gas chamber in Mauthausen. Altfuldisch had a relatively high rank as Obersturmführer and second protective custody camp leader and, due to this function, had authority, but he did not limit himself to this, but also murdered himself. "

On May 13, 1947, Altfuldisch was sentenced to death . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1947 by hanging in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . His last words were: "I am dying for Germany".

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Florian Freund: The Dachau Mauthausen Trial , in: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . Yearbook 2001, Vienna 2001, pp. 35–66

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Freund : The Dachau Mauthausen Trial, in: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Yearbook 2001, Vienna 2001, p. 57.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Altfuldisch, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altfuldisch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer, second protective custody camp leader in Mauthausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Brückenau
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Landsberg am Lech