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Friedrich Boßhammer

Given a non-final life sentence in 1972; died during the appeal. 1906–1972

Friedrich Boßhammer served as RSHA IV B 4 official and Jewish-affairs officer with the BdS in Italy. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Italy through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Deportation of JewsHolocaustReich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Confirmed findings

Friedrich Boßhammer was born in Opladen on 20 December 1906 and died on 17 December 1972. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
As an RSHA IV B 4 official and Jewish-affairs officer with the BdS in Italy, he participated in organising deportations of Jews from Italy. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
On 11 April 1972 the Berlin Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment; he died during the appeal, so the judgment did not become final. (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 records his documented administrative and organisational role in the deportations without attributing personal commission of every crime connected with the transports. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

From January 1944 he worked in Verona as the Jewish-affairs officer with the BdS in Italy. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
On 11 April 1972 the Berlin Regional Court issued a non-final life sentence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

No victim-count ranking

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Postwar accountability

Boßhammer died on 17 December 1972 while the appeal was pending; the judgment did not become final. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The profile preserves the procedural distinction between the judgment and its finality and gives no independent victim total. 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)

Sources

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