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Max Schobert
Max Schobert served as Schutzhaftlagerführer at Buchenwald. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald 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
- Max Schobert was born in Würzburg on 25 December 1904 and executed at Landsberg am Lech on 19 November 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1940 to 1945 he served as Schutzhaftlagerführer at Buchenwald. Gert Schramm recalled that when his transport arrived in July 1944, Schobert received it with a threatening speech. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A US military court found him guilty in the main Buchenwald camp trial on 14 August 1947, sentenced him to death, and the sentence was carried out on 19 November 1948. (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 links his documented post as Schutzhaftlagerführer to an individual survivor’s account of his threatening speech, without assigning every crime committed at Buchenwald to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1940 to 1945 he served as Schutzhaftlagerführer at Buchenwald; in July 1944 he received Gert Schramm’s transport with a threatening speech. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 14 August 1947 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 19 November 1948. (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
The death sentence of 14 August 1947 was affirmed and carried out at Landsberg on 19 November 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The sources differ over the stated SS rank, so the discrepancy is made explicit; no separate victim total is assigned. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.