Pohl Trial - Defendants

Defendants

All convicts were found guilty on charges 2, 3, and 4, except Hohberg (who was not charged on count 4, but found guilty on counts 2 and 3). Three defendants were acquitted on all charges: Vogt, Scheide, and Klein.

Name	Function	Sentence of Nov 3, 1947	Sentence of Aug 11, 1948	1951 Amnesty
Oswald Pohl	head of the WVHA, Lt. General of the Waffen SS	death by hanging	confirmed	executed June 7, 1951
August Frank	deputy chief of the WVHA, Lt. General of the Waffen SS	life imprisonment	confirmed	commuted to 15 years
Georg Lörner	deputy chief of the WVHA, Maj. General of the Waffen SS	death by hanging	changed to lifetime imprisonment	commuted to 15 years
Heinz Karl Fanslau	deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier General of the Waffen SS	25 years	reduced to 20 years	commuted to 15 years
Hans Lörner	SS Oberführer	10 years	confirmed	released
Josef Vogt	SS Standartenführer	acquitted
Erwin Tschentscher	SS Standartenführer	10 years	confirmed	released
Rudolf Scheide	SS Standartenführer	acquitted
Max Kiefer	SS Obersturmbannführer	life imprisonment	reduced to 20 years	released
Franz Eirenschmalz	SS Standartenführer	death by hanging	confirmed	commuted to 9 years
Karl Sommer	SS Sturmbannführer	death by hanging	confirmed	commuted to lifetime imprisonment in 1949; commuted to 20 years in 1951
Hermann Pook	Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS, chief dentist of the WVHA	10 years	confirmed	released
Hans Heinrich Baier	SS Oberführer	10 years	confirmed	released
Hans Hohberg	executive officer	10 years, incl. time already served	confirmed	released
Leo Volk	SS Hauptsturmführer, personal advisor of Pohl, head of legal department of the WVHA	10 years	confirmed	commuted to 8 years
Karl Mummenthey	SS Obersturmbannführer	life imprisonment	confirmed	commuted to 20 years
Hans Bobermin	SS Obersturmbannführer	20 years	reduced to 15 years	released
Horst Klein	SS Obersturmbannführer	acquitted

Hohberg's sentence of 10 years included time already served—he was imprisoned on October 22, 1945—because he was not a member of the SS. The defense counsel for Karl Sommer filed a petition to modify the sentence to General Lucius D. Clay, the Commander-in-Chief for the U.S. occupation zone. In response to this appeal, Clay ordered Sommer's death sentence to be commuted into a lifetime imprisonment on May 11, 1949. Pohl kept claiming his innocence, stating that he had been only a lower functionary. He was hanged on June 7, 1951, in the prison at Landsberg.

The head of Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen of the WVHA (the department of concentration camps), Richard Glücks, who had been the direct superior of all commanders of concentration camps and as such directly responsible for all the atrocities committed there, was not tried. On May 10, 1945, two days after the unconditional surrender of Germany, he had committed suicide in the navy hospital of Flensburg.