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Martin Gottfried Weiss
Martin Gottfried Weiss served as concentration-camp commandant. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau and Neuengamme, Germany 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
- Martin Gottfried Weiss: 1905-06-03–1946-05-29. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
- Martin Gottfried Weiss commanded Neuengamme, Dachau and for a period Majdanek; in the Dachau main trial the court found his participation in the criminal common design governing the camp. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
- On 1945-12-13 a US military court sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 1946-05-29. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- Martin Gottfried Weiss commanded Neuengamme, Dachau and for a period Majdanek; in the Dachau main trial the court found his participation in the criminal common design governing the camp. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
- On 1945-12-13 a US military court sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 1946-05-29. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, 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
On 1945-12-13 a US military court sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 1946-05-29. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, cited passage; Source: Bavarian House of History, cited passage)
Sources
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