Viktor Zoller

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Viktor Zoller (born June 22, 1912 in Ravensburg , † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and employed as an adjutant in Mauthausen and Auschwitz I (main camp) .

Zoller was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3.287.569) and SS (SS number 77.379) from May 1933 . In the SS Zoller rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer in the reserve of the Waffen-SS in 1941 . From the late 1930s he was a member of the SS-Totenkopfverband in the 1st SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Upper Bavaria" at the Dachau concentration camp . From March 22, 1940 to May 2, 1942, Zoller was adjutant to camp commandant Franz Ziereis in Mauthausen concentration camp. There he was involved in the transports of prisoners from Aktion 14f13 to the Hartheim killing center .

Then Zoller was deployed on the Eastern Front as a member of the Waffen SS until October 28, 1943 . From November 22, 1943 to May 25, 1944, he was adjutant to camp commandant Arthur Liebehenschel in the main camp of Auschwitz . According to witness statements, he was present several times at selections at the “Judenrampe” . From late May 1944 to April 9, 1945, he was deployed as commander of the guard battalion in Mauthausen concentration camp.

After the end of the war, Zoller was indicted before a US military tribunal as part of the Dachau trials at the Mauthausen main trial and sentenced to death by hanging on May 13, 1946 . In the judgment, the order and implementation of executions and participation in gassings were taken into account as individual acts of excess at Zoller . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1947 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 698.
  • Case No. 000-50-5 (US vs. Hans Altfuldisch et al) Tried 13 May 46 (English, PDF, 75.2 MB)
  • Florian Freund : The Dachau Mauthausen Trial. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Yearbook 2001. Vienna 2001, pp. 35–66.
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 185.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 698.
  3. ↑ Viktor Zoller at www.dws-xip.pl
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 451.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 451.
  6. ↑ Florian Freund : The Dachau Mauthausen Trial, in: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Yearbook 2001, Vienna 2001, p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Zoller, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer and adjutant in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Landsberg