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Wilhelm Dörr
Wilhelm Dörr served as deputy commander of the Kleinbodungen subcamp and its evacuation column to Bergen-Belsen. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Kleinbodungen and Bergen-Belsen 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
- Wilhelm Dörr was born in Merenberg on 9 February 1921 and executed at Hameln on 13 December 1945. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was deputy commander at Kleinbodungen and second in command of its April 1945 evacuation march to Bergen-Belsen; the trial report records testimony that he shot escapees, sick prisoners and stragglers, allegations Dörr denied. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In November 1945 a British military court found him guilty on the Bergen-Belsen charge, sentenced him to death by hanging, and the sentence was carried out on 13 December 1945. (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 function and conduct documented in the trial record, notes the defence position and bases the legal outcome on the judgment. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In April 1945 he served as deputy commander of the prisoner column from Kleinbodungen to Bergen-Belsen. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In November 1945 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 13 December 1945. (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 British military court convicted him in 1945; the death sentence was carried out at Hameln on 13 December 1945. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No victim total is calculated from conflicting testimony, and not every act of the column or camp staff is assigned to Dörr. 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)
Sources
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