Vinzenz Schöttl (30 June 1905 in Appersdorf – 28 May 1946 in

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) was a German

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(SS) officer and high-ranking functionary in the

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. Schöttl initially joined the

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in November 1928 before renewing his membership in February 1931, having joined the SS in January 1931. His highest SS rank was

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in the

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Reserve, a position he gained in 1942.Ernst Klee, ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945'', Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, p. 556 In 1933, he was a member of the guards at Dachau concentration camp. In the summer of 1937, he became the National Director of the Lindenhofs der Herzogsägmühle, a facility for travellers. From 1940 he worked for a short time in the ghetto of Lublin from where he was transferred to

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, and soon afterwards to Majdanek concentration camp. From July 1942 until its evacuation in January 1945 Schöttl was Director of

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, otherwise known as Auschwitz concentration camp III. From 3 February 1945 he served under Otto Förschner as deputy commander of

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, a subsidiary network of the larger Dachau camp, remaining in that role until the camp's evacuation in late April of the same year. Schöttl was captured by the

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and on 15 November was indicted for war crimes as part of the Dachau Trials. Reports of his mistreatment of prisoners, as well as the shooting of another prisoner, were taken into account and, on 13 December 1945, he was one of 36 defendants sentenced to death by hanging.Holger Lessing, ''Der erste Dachauer Prozess (1945/46)'', Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1993, p. 323 His execution was carried out in Landsberg Prison on 28 May 1946.

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