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Erich Adam Dinges
Erich Adam Dinges served as driver on the camp staff. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz 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
- Erich Adam Dinges was born on 20 November 1911 in Frankfurt am Main and died on 23 April 1953 in an undetermined location. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1941–1944, with an interruption in service, he worked as a driver at Auschwitz concentration camp with the rank of SS-Sturmmann. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Supreme National Tribunal assessed his service as part of the Auschwitz garrison’s activity; the available sources do not attribute a separate killing to him in this profile. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 22 December 1947 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and was released in 1952. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Erich Adam Dinges only the documented role and conduct described in the cited sources, without transferring to him every crime committed by the institutions or units with which he was associated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1941–1944, with an interruption in service, he worked as a driver at Auschwitz concentration camp with the rank of SS-Sturmmann. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 22 December 1947 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and was released in 1952. (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
After serving the sentence, he was released in 1952 and died on 23 April 1953. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
His place of death remains undetermined; the profile does not expand the court findings with individual acts absent from the sources. No individual victim total is assigned, and no additional order or act is attributed without an explicit source finding. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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