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Andreas Trum
Andreas Trum served as Rapportführer and Arbeitseinsatzführer at Mauthausen responsible for punishments, executions and prisoner labour. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mauthausen 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
- Andreas Trum was born in Hochdorf on 28 November 1920 and was executed in Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 15 December 1942 he served at Mauthausen as Blockführer, Rapportführer and Arbeitseinsatzführer; together with others he was responsible for roll calls, punishments, executions and assigning prisoners to labour. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In the Mauthausen main trial, a US military court sentenced him to death on 13 May 1946; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 Trum’s documented disciplinary and prisoner-labour duties and the beatings identified in witness evidence to him, without transferring responsibility for every act of the Mauthausen staff to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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
- From 1942 to 1945 he held Mauthausen posts covering roll calls, discipline, punishments, executions and the allocation of forced labour. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 13 May 1946 he was sentenced to death in the Mauthausen main trial; on 28 May 1947 he was hanged in Landsberg. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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
A US military court sentenced him to death on 13 May 1946; after review, the sentence was upheld and carried out on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 Mauthausen Memorial yearbook published in 2016 cites an archival curriculum vitae with the date 28 November 1920, while a later table from 2024 gives 23 November; the profile uses 28 November, following the personnel-file description, and discloses the discrepancy. 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.