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Erich Wasicky
Erich Wasicky served as SS pharmacist at Mauthausen involved in prisoner selections and in handling agents used for killing. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mauthausen · Austria 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 Wasicky was born in Vienna on 27 May 1911 and served as the camp pharmacist at Mauthausen from 1941. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
- The House of Austrian History biography documents his participation in selections of sick prisoners and his responsibility for procuring and storing Zyklon B used in camp killings. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
- A US military tribunal found him guilty in the main Mauthausen trial; he was executed at Landsberg on 28 May 1947. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Wasicky’s responsibility rests on an individualised role in selections and in the chain of custody for a killing agent, not merely on employment in the camp pharmacy. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
Key events and mechanisms
- 1941 – became camp pharmacist at Mauthausen (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
- 1941–1945 – involvement in selections and the handling of Zyklon B (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
- 1946 – death sentence in the main Mauthausen trial (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
- 28 May 1947 – executed at Landsberg (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
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 US military tribunal in the main Mauthausen trial sentenced Wasicky to death. The sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 28 May 1947. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
Limits of the evidence
The profile does not attribute every death at Mauthausen or every use of gas to Wasicky personally; it is limited to the acts and functions identified by the sources. (Source: Haus der Geschichte Österreich, biographical profile “Erich Wasicky”, sections on his service at Mauthausen, selections, Zyklon B and the trial; Source: Mauthausen Memorial, Jahrbuch 2008, p. 66, note 2; US v. Hans Altfuldisch et al., ETO Case 000-50-5; Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, Reference Information Paper 115, records of U.S. Army war-crimes trials; Mauthausen parent case finding aid)
Sources
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