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Albert Hugo Schuster
Albert Hugo Schuster served as commander of Motorized Gendarmerie Platoon 62. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Kielce region through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Albert Hugo Schuster was born in Plauen on 13 February 1912 and executed in Leipzig on 31 May 1973. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As commander of Motorized Gendarmerie Platoon 62, he directed terror actions and executions against civilians in the Kielce region. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 9 February 1973 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 31 May 1973, and in 1994 it was posthumously reduced to life imprisonment. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes the documented command and actions of his platoon to Schuster but does not combine conflicting victim figures from studies with different scopes. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1943–1944 he commanded Motorized Gendarmerie Platoon 62 in occupied Poland. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 9 February 1973 the court in Karl-Marx-Stadt imposed a death sentence; he was executed on 31 May 1973. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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Postwar accountability
The East German Supreme Court upheld the judgment; in 1994 a Chemnitz court posthumously changed the sentence to life imprisonment. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The posthumous 1994 decision concerned the punishment and is not presented as a historical exoneration. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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