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Friedrich Karl Wilhelm
Friedrich Karl Wilhelm served as senior SS medical orderly in the prisoner infirmary. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald 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
- Friedrich Karl Wilhelm was born on 6 March 1890 in Friedrichswalde and died on 26 November 1948 in Landsberg am Lech. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1941 to April 1945 he was the senior SS medical orderly in the prisoner infirmary of Buchenwald concentration camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- At trial he was accused of participating in killing sick prisoners by injections; the court found his assistance and participation in the camp’s criminal system. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 14 August 1947 and executed at Landsberg on 26 November 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Friedrich Karl Wilhelm 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
- From 1941 to April 1945 he was the senior SS medical orderly in the prisoner infirmary of Buchenwald concentration camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 14 August 1947 and executed at Landsberg on 26 November 1948. (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 the war he was tried in the Buchenwald main trial and executed. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The trial record contains dispute over the scale of injections; the profile gives no victim total and relies on the participation found. 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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