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Waldemar Wolter
Waldemar Wolter served as chief SS physician at Mauthausen concentration camp. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mauthausen 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
- Waldemar Wolter was born in Würzburg on 19 May 1908 and was executed in Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1944 to 1945 he served as chief SS physician in the Mauthausen camp complex. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Trial testimony described his participation in selections of sick prisoners and the transfer of prisoners to the gas chamber from October 1944 to February 1945. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 to Wolter participation in selections and the responsibility established by the court, without automatically transferring to him every crime committed by the Mauthausen medical staff. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1944–1945, as chief SS physician, he participated in the camp system for selecting sick prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1947 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 Mauthausen main trial sentenced him to death in 1947, and he was executed on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The sources also contain defence-favourable testimony and differing assessments of the extent of his conduct, so the profile sets no separate victim total. 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; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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