English source-aligned edition
Fritz Hintermayer
Fritz Hintermayer served as chief camp physician. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau 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 Hintermayer was born on 28 October 1911 in Markt Grafing and died on 29 May 1946 in Landsberg am Lech. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From February 1944 he served as a physician at Dachau, and from autumn 1944 to April 1945 headed the camp medical department. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The court considered lethal injections given to women prisoners, preparation to kill sick prisoners and participation in executions. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 and executed at Landsberg on 29 May 1946. (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 attributes to Fritz Hintermayer 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From February 1944 he served as a physician at Dachau, and from autumn 1944 to April 1945 headed the camp medical department. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 and executed at Landsberg on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 Dachau’s liberation he was tried in the camp’s main trial and executed. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile separates documented personal acts from general responsibility for the catastrophic state of medical care. 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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