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Heinrich Eisenhöfer
Heinrich Eisenhöfer served as head of prisoner-property administration at Mauthausen. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mauthausen 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 Eisenhöfer was born in Pirmasens on 19 February 1893 and executed at Landsberg am Lech in late May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As head of prisoner-property administration he belonged to the Mauthausen staff; in a trial statement he admitted participating in 2 executions in 1943–1944. (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 court sentenced him to death in the main Mauthausen trial; he was executed in late May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 links his administrative post to his specific admitted participation in executions without attributing every crime of the camp to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1943–1944 he participated on orders in 2 executions, as he admitted in a statement submitted at trial. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 13 May 1946 a US military court sentenced him to death. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 review of the judgment, he was executed at Landsberg am Lech in late May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The figure 2 refers only to the executions admitted in his own statement, not to a complete victim total. 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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