Dachau Trials - Notable Death Sentences

Notable Death Sentences

• Richard Drauz: Former Nazi Party official, Kreisleiter of Heilbronn and member of the Reichstag (1933-1945). Sentenced to death on 11 December 1945 for his involvement in the summary execution of an Allied prisoner of war on 24 March 1945. Executed in Landsberg prison on 4 December 1946.
• August Eigruber: Ex SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter of Oberdonau (1939-1945) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria (1938-1945). Condemned to death on 11 May 1946 for his involvement in the establishment and administration of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Executed on 28 May 1947.
• Otto Förschner: Ex SS-Sturmbannführer and former commandant of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp (1943-1945) and commander of the Dachau satellite-camp of Kaufering (February-April 1945). Sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 for atrocities committed during his tenure at Kaufering. Executed in Landsberg prison on 28 May 1946.
• Eduard Krebsbach: Ex SS-Sturmbannführer and chief medical officer of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (1941-1943). Convicted on 11 May 1946 of killing hundreds of ill and disabled inmates by administering lethal injections of the chemical compound Benzene. Executed on 28 May 1947.
• Julius Ludolf: Ex SS-Obersturmführer in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system (1940-1945). Served as commandant of the satellite-camps of Loibl, Großraming and Melk. Condemned to death on 11 May 1946 and executed in Landsberg prison on 28 May 1947.
• Hans Möser: Ex SS-Obersturmführer and commander of the Protective Custody Camp at Mittelbau-Dora (1944-1945). Condemned to death on 30 December 1947 for his involvement in the executions of camp inmates. Executed in Landsberg prison on 26 November 1948. The only defendant of the 19 in the Dora Trial to receive a death sentence.
• Joachim Peiper: Ex SS-Standartenführer and commander of the 1st SS-Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Sentenced to death on 16 July 1946 for his role in the Malmedy massacre. Sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment and later to time served, following an investigation conducted by the US Senate Armed Services Committee which concluded that improper pre-trial procedures by US authorities had unfairly affected the trial process. Released from prison in December 1956.
• Hermann Pister: Ex SS-Oberführer and commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp (1942-1945). Sentenced to death in August 1947 but died of natural causes in Landsberg prison on 28 September 1948, before sentence could be carried out.
• Claus Schilling: Former civilian medical specialist at Dachau concentration camp (1942-1945). Sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 for his involvement in medical experimentation on camp inmates. Executed on 28 May 1946.
• Jürgen Stroop: Ex SS-Gruppenführer. Sentenced to death on 21 March 1947 for ordering the summary execution of captured Allied airmen. Later extradited to Poland to stand trial for his role in the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Condemned to death by Polish authorities on 23 July 1951 and executed in Mokotów Prison in Warsaw on 6 March 1952.
• Erich Wasicky: Ex SS-Hauptsturmführer and medical officer in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system (1941-1945). Oversaw the establishment and operation of the gas chambers in the Mauthausen main camp and the satellite camp of Hartheim. Sentenced to death on 13 May 1946 and executed on 28 May 1947.
• Martin Gottfried Weiss: Ex SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Dachau concentration camp system. Served twice as commandant of the Dachau main camp (1942-1943 and April 1945). Also commanded the satellite-camp of Mühldorf (1944-1945). Sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 for atrocities committed during his first command at Dachau, which included the initial construction and use of the camp's gas chamber and human experimenation conducted using camp inmates. Executed in Landsberg prison on 29 May 1946.