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Fritz Buntrock
Fritz Buntrock served as Rapportführer in the Roma camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz-Birkenau · occupied Poland 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
- Fritz Buntrock was born in Osnabrück on 8 March 1909 and served at Auschwitz from July 1942. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum identifies him as the last Rapportführer of the Roma camp and says he was in charge of its liquidation. (Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, The Roma in Auschwitz, ‘The Roma camp in the eyes of the SS’, SS personnel list, entry Fritz Buntrock.)
- Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal found that he took part in selections, murdered an individual prisoner and physically and morally abused inmates. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The judgment identifies his own acts, while the museum establishes his role in the liquidation of the Roma camp. The profile does not attribute every killing in that operation to him individually. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, The Roma in Auschwitz, ‘The Roma camp in the eyes of the SS’, SS personnel list, entry Fritz Buntrock.)
Key events and mechanisms
- From July 1942 – served at Auschwitz (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
- 2–3 August 1944 – liquidation of the Roma camp, where Buntrock was the last Rapportführer (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, The Roma in Auschwitz, ‘The Roma camp in the eyes of the SS’, SS personnel list, entry Fritz Buntrock.)
- 22 December 1947 – death sentence in the Auschwitz staff trial (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
- 24 January 1948 – execution at Kraków’s Montelupich prison (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
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 Supreme National Tribunal sentenced Buntrock to death on 22 December 1947. He was hanged at Montelupich prison in Kraków on 24 January 1948. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.)
Limits of the evidence
No individual victim count is established, and oversight of the camp’s liquidation does not itself prove authorship of an extermination order. No portrait is used because reuse rights have not been verified. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Joanna Lubecka, Cracow trials before the Supreme National Tribunal, printed pp. 168–169 and 357–358; judgment file AIPN GK 196/549, folio 51.; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, The Roma in Auschwitz, ‘The Roma camp in the eyes of the SS’, SS personnel list, entry Fritz Buntrock.)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.