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Otto Förschner

Convicted in the main Dachau camp trial and executed on 28 May 1946. 1902–1946

Otto Förschner served as commandant of Mittelbau-Dora and later the Kaufering subcamp complex. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mittelbau-Dora and Kaufering through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Concentration campsCamp terrorForced labourExecutions

Confirmed findings

Otto Förschner was born in Dürrenzimmern on 4 November 1902 and served as an SS officer in the concentration-camp system. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
As commandant of Mittelbau-Dora he headed a camp apparatus that subjected prisoners to destructive forced labour; he later commanded the Kaufering complex subordinate to Dachau. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
A US military court in the main Dachau camp trial sentenced him to death by hanging; he was executed at Landsberg on 28 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 the documented command functions and conduct covered by the judgment, not every crime committed in the camps under his authority. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

In 1943–1944 he was commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, where prisoners were forced to work in armaments production. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
On 13 December 1945 he received a death sentence in the Dachau trial. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

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

A US military court in the main Dachau camp trial sentenced him to death by hanging; he was executed at Landsberg on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The account is limited to the cited evidence and gives no separate victim total. No portrait with a safely verified licence is available. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Sources

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