Execution of Otto Förschner
- Sadistic Nazi Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora & Kaufering Concentr. Camp

7 June 2022

Category: High Ranking Nazi Representatives

Otto Förschner was born on the 4th of November 1902. In 1922 he became a soldier when he enrolled in the Wehrmacht – the German armed forces. In 1934 Förschner joined the SS and in 1937 he joined the Nazi Party. From June 1941 he served as an officer during Operation Barbarossa. In September 1943 he became a commandant of Mittelbau-Dora which was a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. In the camp, one of Förschner’s duties was preventing acts of sabotage during V-weapons production.

The commandant of the largest subcamp of Dachau

In February 1945 Otto Förschner became the commandant of Kaufering concentration camp complex which was the largest subcamp of Dachau. Förschner was also accused of numerous crimes at Kaufering such as mistreating the poor prisoners, killing one prisoner with an iron pipe and management of prisoner executions. During Kaufering camp’s existence between June 1944 and April 1945, fifteen thousand out of 30,000 prisoners died from hunger, disease, executions, or during death marches. Otto Förschner remained the camp’s commandant until the end of April, 1945.

In the end, justice finally caught up with Förschner when he was arrested by the allies and tried at the Dachau trials. On the 13th of December, 1945 the US military tribunal found Otto Förschner guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging. He was executed on the 28th of May 1946.

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