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Hans Spatzenegger
Hans Spatzenegger served as prisoner-detail leader in the Wiener Graben quarry. 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
- Hans Spatzenegger was born on 1 March 1900 in Laufen and died on 27 May 1947 in Landsberg am Lech. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Spatzenegger was an SS-Hauptscharführer and the first detail leader of prisoners working in the Wiener Graben quarry within the Mauthausen complex. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The military review recorded testimony that he daily beat prisoners with a cat-o'-nine-tails and sticks, kicked them unconscious, drove them into the guard line and ordered people pushed from the quarry cliff; he personally presided over the pushing of three Soviet prisoners of war. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A United States military court in the Mauthausen main trial found him guilty and sentenced him to death; the reviewing authority recommended approval of the sentence. (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 Hans Spatzenegger 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
- As a detail leader at Wiener Graben, Spatzenegger personally used violence against prisoners and directed work in the quarry. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The sentence was carried out by hanging at Landsberg prison on 27 May 1947. (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 trial, he remained in United States custody until the approved death sentence was carried out at Landsberg. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile records only the acts attributed to Spatzenegger in the individual section of the judgment review. It does not transfer to him every crime committed by the Mauthausen staff or assign him an individual victim total. 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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