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August Eigruber
August Eigruber served as Gauleiter and Reich governor of Reichsgau Oberdonau. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Oberdonau · Mauthausen · Hartheim 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
- He served as Gauleiter of Oberdonau from 1936 and Reich governor from 1940 to 1945. (Deutsche Biographie)
- He was the highest-ranking defendant in the main Mauthausen trial. (Mauthausen Memorial)
- On 27 April 1945 he ordered the killing of the remaining 34 members of an Upper Austrian resistance group; 33 were gassed the next day. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
- He was sentenced to death and executed on 28 May 1947. (Deutsche Biographie)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile links his regional authority to a specific documented execution order and does not automatically attribute every crime committed in the Mauthausen complex to him. (Deutsche Biographie; Mauthausen Memorial; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Key events and mechanisms
- Held the offices of Gauleiter and Reich governor in Oberdonau from 1936/1940 to 1945. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
- Ordered the killing of 34 resistance members on 27 April 1945. (Mauthausen Memorial)
- Was condemned to death in the main Mauthausen trial and executed on 28 May 1947. (Deutsche Biographie)
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
The U.S. military tribunal in the main Mauthausen case sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Limits of the evidence
His political responsibility for the Mauthausen system was broader than one order, but this profile foregrounds the act of 27 April 1945 documented by the Mauthausen Memorial and survivor Richard Dietl. (Deutsche Biographie; Mauthausen Memorial; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.