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Engelbert Valentin Niedermeyer
Engelbert Valentin Niedermeyer served as block leader and supervisor of a work detail at the Dachau crematorium. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau 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
- Engelbert Valentin Niedermeyer was born in Mönchstockheim on 26 December 1911 and served at Dachau from 1934. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was a block leader and supervised a work detail at the crematorium; during questioning he admitted beating prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He received a death sentence in the main Dachau trial and was executed at Landsberg on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile links his supervisory posts with the violence he admitted and the judicial outcome, but does not attribute every act of the crematorium detail or the camp’s entire operation to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From April 1938 to November 1941 he was a block leader at Dachau, then supervised a crematorium work detail until May 1942. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 13 December 1945 a US military court sentenced him to death. (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 in the main Dachau trial; he was executed at Landsberg on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The sources differ on his final SS rank, so the rank field uses a general description. No victim total is assigned. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (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.