Vincent Schöttl

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Vinzenz Schöttl in American internment. Photo from 1945.

Vinzenz Schöttl (born June 30, 1905 in Appersdorf ; † May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS leader and was employed in a leading position in concentration camps .

Life

Vinzenz Schöttl, an office servant by profession, joined the NSDAP ( membership number 104.083) in November 1928 and again at the beginning of February 1931 . At the beginning of January 1931, Schöttl became a member of the SS (membership number 5.630). In the SS, Schöttl achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmführer in the reserve of the Waffen-SS in 1942 . From 1933 he was a member of the guards at the Dachau concentration camp . In the summer of 1937 he became the director of the Lindenhof of the Herzogsägmühle, an institution for non-residents. From 1940 he worked briefly in the Lublin ghetto and was then transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp and soon afterwards to the Majdanek concentration camp . From July 1942 until the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Schöttl was the head of the protective custody camp in Auschwitz III Monowitz . From February 3, 1945, Schöttl was transferred to the Kauferinger subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp as deputy camp commandant under Otto Förschner . Schöttl, who was also responsible for the division of labor in the Kaufering subcamp no.3, remained in this position until the camps were evacuated at the end of April 1945.

On November 15, 1945 in Schöttl was Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place when war American US by a military court indicted and on 13 December 1945, 35 other co-defendants to death by the strand convicted. In the judgment, the mistreatment of prisoners and the shooting of a prisoner were taken into account as individual excesses at Schöttl . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • 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 .
  • Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
  • Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5

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. 241.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 556.
  3. ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Schöttl, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leaders in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Appersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1946
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison