Vinzenz Schöttl
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Vinzenz Schöttl (30 June 1905 in Appersdorf – 28 May 1946 in
Landsberg am Lech Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech (river), Lech) is a Town#Germany, town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg (district), Lands ...
) 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
Obersturmführer __NOTOC__ (, ; short: ''Ostuf'') was a Nazi Germany paramilitary ranks, Nazi Germany paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the Sturmabteilung, SA, Schutzstaffel, SS, National Socialist Motor Corps, NSKK and the ...
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 Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ...
. 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
Lublin Ghetto The Lublin Ghetto was a World War II ghetto created by Nazi Germany in the city of Lublin on the territory of General Government in occupied Poland. The ghetto inmates were mostly Polish Jews, although a number of Roma were also brought in.Dor ...
from where he was transferred to
Neuengamme concentration camp Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and List of subcamps of Neuengamme, more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme, Hamburg, N ...
, and soon afterwards to
Majdanek concentration camp Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had three gas chambers, two wooden gallows, ...
. From July 1942 until its evacuation in January 1945 Schöttl was Director of
Monowitz concentration camp Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (''Arbeitslager'') run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existe ...
, otherwise known as
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III. From 3 February 1945 he served under Otto Förschner as deputy commander of
Kaufering concentration camp Kaufering () was a system of eleven subcamp (SS), subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located around the towns of Landsberg am Lech and Kaufering, Bavaria, Kaufering in ...
, 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
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. 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
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on 28 May 1946.


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