Johann Schöpp

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Johann Schöpp (born March 20, 1911 in Alcen, Romania ; † unknown) was a Romanian SS man and deployed in the Feldafing subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp .

biography

Schöpp, a Romanian citizen and so-called Volksdeutscher , was not drafted into the Wehrmacht because of his foreign citizenship , but instead taken over by the Romanian army into the Waffen-SS due to an agreement between the German Reich and Romania . Schöpp traveled from Sibiu to Vienna on July 29, 1943 , where he was drafted as unfit for war, and after a brief stay in Oranienburg , he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp guard on August 21, 1943. From November 1, 1943 to April 23, 1945, he performed guard duty in the Feldafing satellite camp in Dachau . He then returned to the Dachau concentration camp and accompanied an evacuation transport with the destination Tyrol, which however no longer arrived there due to the course of the war.

After his arrest, Schöpp was tried on November 15, 1945 in the main Dachau trial, which took place in the context of the Dachau trials , on charges of war crimes before an American military court . On December 13, 1945, Schöpp, who had no individual criminal offenses, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for participating in the crimes in the Dachau concentration camp, which was later converted into a five-year prison term. Schöpp was imprisoned in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison and released in February 1950. Nothing is known about his further life.

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personal data
SURNAME Schöpp, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian SS man and deployed in the Feldafing subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Alcen, Romania
DATE OF DEATH after 1950