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Josef Kollmer
Josef Kollmer served as commander of guard units in the Auschwitz complex. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz and Monowitz, occupied Poland 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
- From January 1941 he served in Auschwitz guard units and for part of that period commanded the fourth guard company. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- The Auschwitz subcamps research project identifies him as an officer leading the guard battalion at Auschwitz III-Monowitz. (Source: Auschwitz Subcamps research project, cited passage)
- In the Auschwitz garrison trial Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to death. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
IPN material supports saying that the indictment covered participation in executions, selections for gas chambers and abuse. Where the source summarizes charges, the profile does not automatically turn them into separate judicial findings. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- On 25 February 1947 he was extradited to Poland. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- On 22 December 1947 he was sentenced to death. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
- On 24 January 1948 the sentence was carried out at Montelupich Prison in Kraków. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
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 extradition on 25 February 1947 he appeared before the Supreme National Tribunal. Sentenced to death on 22 December 1947, he was among those whose sentences were carried out at Montelupich Prison on 24 January 1948. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, Truth About Camps database, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage; Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
The list of executions, selections and violence comes from the cited study’s account of the indictment and is marked accordingly. No separate victim total is attributed exclusively to Kollmer. No portrait was selected because rights to a particular file were not verified. (Source: Institute of National Remembrance, cited passage)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.