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Oswald Pohl
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German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
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Oswald Pohl, born Oswald Ludwig Pohl on 30 June 1892 in Duisburg, was a politician, naval officer and soldier holding citizenship of Germany, who served in the Imperial German Navy and took part in World War I and World War II. He was a member of the Nazi Party, the Schutzstaffel and the Sturmabteilung, held the rank of Obergruppenführer, and received the Golden Party Badge. He was convicted of crime against humanity. Pohl died by hanging, a capital punishment, on 8 June 1951 at Landsberg Prison.
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Key facts
- Born
- 30 June 1892 ( 1892-06-30 ) , Duisburg -Ruhrort, Rhine Province , Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 7 June 1951 (1951-06-07) (aged 58), Landsberg Prison , Landsberg am Lech , West Germany
- Cause of death
- Execution by hanging
- Occupation
- Head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
- Known for
- Business administrator of Nazi concentration camp system
- Criminal status
- Executed
- Motive
- Nazism
- Convictions
- War crimes , Crimes against humanity , Membership in a criminal organization
- Trial
- Pohl Trial
- Criminal penalty
- Death
- Victims
- Millions
- Span of crimes
- 1939–1945
- Country
- Multiple countries across Europe
- Location
- Nazi concentration camps
- Date apprehended
- 27 May 1946
- Allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- Branch
- Waffen-SS
- Rank
- SS- Obergruppenführer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ludwig
- Family name
- Pohl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Duisburg
- Place of death
- Landsberg Prison
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Award
- Golden Party Badge
- Participant in
- Operation Reinhard
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Imperial German Navy
- Military rank
- Obergruppenführer
- Image
- Pohl, Oswald.JPG
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
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- date of death
- 1951-06-07
- Commons category
- Oswald Pohl
- date of birth
- 1892-06-30
- member of
- Sturmabteilung
- name in native language
- Oswald Pohl
- birth name
- Oswald Ludwig Pohl
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- investigated by
- Georg Konrad Morgen
- partner in business or sport
- Rudolf Höss
- P8168
- U-854
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Encyclopedic overview
Oswald Ludwig Pohl ( German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Holocaust.
Born in Duisburg, Pohl served in the Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea and at the Flemish coast during the First World War. After the war he worked with the Freikorps and took part in the Kapp Putsch, after which he joined the Reichsmarine. Pohl became a member of the SA in 1925 and a Nazi Party member a year later. He subsequently became a close associate of Heinrich Himmler and established himself as a capable administrator within the SS. In 1942, Himmler appointed Pohl chief of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, placing him in charge of all concentration camps and their exploitation of forced labour, SS and Police building projects and SS economic enterprises; he was also made SS-Obergruppenführer. At the time he was the third most powerful SS figure after Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.
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