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Josef Remmele
Josef Remmele served as roll-call leader at Dachau and commandant of the Eintrachthütte and Jawischowitz subcamps. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau and Auschwitz subcamps 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
- Josef Remmele was born in Horgau on 3 March 1903 and served as an SS non-commissioned officer at Dachau and Auschwitz. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He commanded the Eintrachthütte and Jawischowitz subcamps; at Dachau he had earlier served as block leader, labour deployment leader and roll-call leader. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- At trial he admitted giving firing orders in two executions of 40 and 97 Russians; he was found guilty and sentenced to death. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile distinguishes Remmele’s proven acts at Dachau from conditions in the Auschwitz subcamps; it does not attribute selections conducted by doctors or every abuse by subordinate guards to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From July 1944 until the subcamp closed he commanded Jawischowitz, having earlier commanded Eintrachthütte. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 15 September 1947 a US military court sentenced him to death. (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
A US military court sentenced him to death in September 1947; he was executed at Landsberg in 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
Exact attribution is limited to his admitted orders and the court’s findings; the subcamp account documents his office and context, not every individual crime. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.