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Simon Kiern
Simon Kiern served as block leader and camp clerk. 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
- Simon Kiern was born on 13 August 1913 and was executed at Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- At Dachau concentration camp he served as a block leader and as a clerk in the protective-custody camp leader’s office. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- The trial review records evidence concerning prisoner mistreatment, the killing of one prisoner and participation in executions. (Source: cited record)
- On 13 December 1945 he was found guilty in the main Dachau case and sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile distinguishes the individual findings described in the review record from the broader common-design doctrine applied to the camp staff. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1941–1942 he served as a block leader and clerk at Dachau concentration camp. (Source: cited record)
- He was sentenced to death on 13 December 1945; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited 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
A United States military court sentenced him to death on 13 December 1945; he was executed on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Limits of the evidence
No individual victim total is assigned and no conduct beyond the judicial record is attributed. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.