NR Nazi ReportSeven Circles of Responsibility

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Kurt Emil Schmutzler

On 23 June 1947 a U.S. military court sentenced him to death; he was executed at Landsberg on 29 October 1948. 1895–1948

Kurt Emil Schmutzler served as satellite-camp commandant and Waffen-SS officer. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Wiener Neudorf and Mauthausen through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Concentration campsForced labourDeath marchesWar crimes

Confirmed findings

  • Kurt Emil Schmutzler was born on 17 November 1895 in Elsterberg and died at Landsberg on 29 October 1948 when the sentence was carried out. (Source: cited record)
  • From 26 July 1943 to 2 April 1945 he was commandant of the Wiener Neudorf satellite camp in the Mauthausen complex. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
  • His statement records negotiations with companies over the use of prisoner labour and participation in meetings about the satellite camp’s evacuation. (Source: cited record)
  • In Case 000-50-5-2, tried from 9 to 23 June 1947, he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 29 October 1948. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Place in the chain of responsibility

The profile records his command responsibility, decisions concerning prisoner labour and role in evacuation planning, as documented by the trial record and his own statement. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Key events and mechanisms

No victim-count ranking

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 the 1947 trial, the death sentence was approved; it was carried out at Landsberg prison on 29 October 1948. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Limits of the evidence

The sources do not support assigning him an individual victim total or every killing and act of violence committed in the satellite camp or during the evacuation. The profile goes no further than documented duties, decisions and the trial outcome. No portrait with clear publication rights was found. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Sources

The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.