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Heinrich Andergassen
Heinrich Andergassen served as head of the SD outpost in Merano and Sipo officer in Bolzano. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in South Tyrol 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
- Heinrich Andergassen was born in Hall in Tirol on 30 July 1908 and executed on 26 July 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As a Gestapo and SD officer, he ordered the deportation of Jews from Merano; acting on August Schiffer’s order, he killed Manlio Longon during the night of 31 December 1944 to 1 January 1945, and on 20 February 1945 he participated in the torture and murder of Roderick Hall. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A US military commission sentenced him to death in January 1946; the sentence was carried out on 26 July 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 only the documented deportation order and specific murders and torture, not all actions of the structures in which he served. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- During the night of 31 December 1944 to 1 January 1945, acting on August Schiffer’s order, he killed Manlio Longon. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 20 February 1945 he participated in the torture and murder of OSS officer Roderick Hall. (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
He was tried in Naples from 9 to 15 January 1946; after the death sentence he was executed on 26 July 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
Sources variously place the execution near Pisa or Livorno; the execution date is secure. Institutional sources date Longon’s death to either 31 December 1944 or 1 January 1945; the profile therefore describes it as occurring during the night spanning those dates. 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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