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Wilhelm Gerhard Gehring
Wilhelm Gerhard Gehring served as Blockführer and detention supervisor at Auschwitz who participated in executions. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz and Upper Silesia 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 Gerhard Gehring was born in Osnabrück on 14 January 1901 and was executed in Kraków on 24 January 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1942 to 1943 he was detention supervisor and Blockführer of Block 11 in the Auschwitz complex. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The judgment attributed to him personal participation in individual and collective shootings at the Black Wall and in public executions at Monowitz. (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 bases Gehring’s responsibility on individualized findings in the judgment and memorial documentation, not solely on the camp positions he held. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1942–1943 he participated in executions at Block 11 and later in public executions at Monowitz. (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 and was executed on 24 January 1948. (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 Supreme National Tribunal sentenced him to death on 22 December 1947, and the sentence was carried out on 24 January 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile sets no separate victim total because the judgment describes numerous acts but does not provide a sound basis for one personal tally. No approved portrait for publication 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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