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Heinz Karl Fanslau
Heinz Karl Fanslau served as chief of Office A V and deputy chief of Office Group A in the WVHA. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Berlin and the concentration-camp system in occupied Europe 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
- Heinz Karl Fanslau was born on 6 June 1909 in Düringshof and died on 10 March 1987 in Munich. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In the WVHA, Fanslau directed personnel matters covering recruitment, promotions, assignments and transfers, including personnel moved to and from concentration camps. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 tribunal found that he knew of the slave character of prisoner labour and played an important part in administratively maintaining that system; separately, in 1963 he was convicted of aiding the murder of Franz Bläsner during the 1934 purge. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In the Pohl trial he received 25 years' imprisonment, reduced on review to 20 years and later to 15 years; he was released in March 1954. In 1963 a Munich court imposed 3 years for aiding murder. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 attributes to Heinz Karl Fanslau 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1942 to 1945, as chief of Office A V and then deputy chief of Office Group A, he helped administer WVHA personnel and the camp system. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 3 November 1947 he was found guilty in the Pohl trial; on 11 August 1948 the sentence was reduced to 20 years, later to 15 years, and he was released in March 1954. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 his release from Landsberg in March 1954, he was tried again and in 1963 received 3 years for aiding the murder of Franz Bläsner; the sources used do not establish how that second sentence was served. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 Pohl tribunal expressly found that allegations of Fanslau's personal atrocities in Ukraine had not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt; the profile does not attribute them. The separate 1934 act is described according to the conviction for aiding murder, without extending it to other conduct. 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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