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Albert Schwartz
Albert Schwartz served as labour-deployment officer who organized prisoner forced labour at Buchenwald and Mittelbau. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald · Mittelbau-Dora 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 Schwartz was born on 11 May 1905 at Schwarzenau in West Prussia and died on 5 July 1984 at Ahrensbök. (Source: Buchenwald Photo Archive, record 026-01.030; identity, dates, role, sentence sequence and public-domain portrait)
- From 20 October 1942 to 11 April 1945 he served as deputy head of Department IIIa and Arbeitseinsatzführer at Buchenwald; from 1 October 1944 to 9 April 1945 he held the corresponding post at the autonomous Mittelbau camp. (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
- The Buchenwald main trial ran from 11 April to 14 August 1947. Schwartz received a death sentence; it was commuted to life imprisonment on 8 June 1948, and the remaining term was cancelled on 14 May 1954. (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Schwartz’s documented responsibility rests on his direction of prisoner labour deployment in the main camp and its subcamps and on the American tribunal’s adjudication, not on an attribution of a particular personal killing. (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
Key events and mechanisms
- 20 October 1942 – became deputy head of Department IIIa and Arbeitseinsatzführer at Buchenwald (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
- 1 October 1944 – took the corresponding post at autonomous Mittelbau and held it until 9 April 1945 (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
- 14 August 1947 – death sentence; 8 June 1948 – commuted to life imprisonment; 14 May 1954 – released (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
On 14 August 1947 Schwartz was sentenced to death in the Buchenwald trial; on 8 June 1948 the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and on 14 May 1954 the remaining term was cancelled. He died on 5 July 1984. (Source: Aleksander Lasik, Institute of National Remembrance, PDF p. 16, lines 561–592; role, organization of prisoner labour, trial, commutation and release)
Limits of the evidence
The sources establish his office, organization of forced labour and adjudication, but do not prove that Schwartz personally committed a specified killing. Wikimedia Commons classifies the portrait as a public-domain official work of the U.S. Army Signal Corps; the Commons file is used with archive provenance. The variant ‘Albert Fredrich’ is confined to the archive photograph caption. (Source: Buchenwald Photo Archive, record 026-01.030; identity, dates, role, sentence sequence and public-domain portrait)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.