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Siegfried Seidl
Siegfried Seidl served as Commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto and an official in the deportation apparatus.. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and Vienna 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
- He was born on 24 August 1911 in Tulln and executed on 4 February 1947 in Vienna. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He commanded the Theresienstadt ghetto from November 1941 to July 1943, bearing responsibility for its coercive regime and deportations, and later served at Bergen-Belsen and in the deportation and forced-labour apparatus for Hungarian Jews. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Vienna People's Court sentenced him to death on 3 October 1946; the sentence was carried out on 4 February 1947. (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 distinguishes his command and deportation roles from conduct by other RSHA offices and field personnel. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From November 1941 to July 1943 he served as the first commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1944 he worked in Eichmann's apparatus connected with the deportation and forced labour of Hungarian Jews. (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 Vienna People's Court sentenced him to death on 3 October 1946; the sentence was carried out on 4 February 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No portrait with licensing safe for publication was verified; the profile remains unillustrated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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