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Michael Redwitz
Michael Redwitz served as Schutzhaftlagerführer responsible for discipline and camp punishments at Dachau. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau 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
- Michael Redwitz was born in Bayreuth on 14 August 1900 and died in Landsberg am Lech on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As an SS-Hauptsturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer at Dachau, he was responsible for order, roll calls, discipline and the enforcement of punishments against prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Dachau main camp trial convicted him, sentenced him to death on 13 December 1945 and he was hanged on 29 May 1946. (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 attributes documented command of the disciplinary apparatus and official participation in executions and camp punishments to Redwitz, without extending responsibility beyond the court findings and cited evidence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From November 1942 to mid-March 1944 he served as Schutzhaftlagerführer at Dachau and supervised discipline and camp punishments. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 13 December 1945 a US military court sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out on 29 May 1946. (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
After the war he faced a US military court in the Dachau main camp trial; the death sentence was carried out at Landsberg prison on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No individual victim total is assigned to Redwitz, and no decision concerning a particular execution is attributed to him without an explicit source finding. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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.