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Walter Adolf Langleist
Walter Adolf Langleist served as Commandant of the Kaufering subcamp complex and commander of SS guard personnel.. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald, Majdanek, Dachau/Kaufering and Mühldorf 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
- Born in Dresden on 5 August 1893, Langleist was an SS-Sturmbannführer in the concentration-camp system. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As Kaufering commandant he helped direct a forced-labour camp complex; the court convicted him of joining a common design encompassing killings, beatings, torture, starvation and abuse. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A U.S. military court sentenced him to death by hanging on 13 December 1945; the sentence was carried out 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
Responsibility rests on his command office and the judicial finding of participation in the common design; the profile does not assign a specific individual killing without evidence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From September to November 1944 he commanded the Kaufering subcamp complex before serving at Mühldorf. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In December 1945 he was found guilty of all charges in the main Dachau trial. (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
A U.S. military court sentenced him to death by hanging on 13 December 1945; the sentence was carried out 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
No safely licensed portrait has been identified for publication; the profile remains without an image pending a separate rights review. The group judgment does not individualize every act of violence at Kaufering. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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