Eberhard Schöngarth

Karl Eberhard Schöngarth
Schöngarth as SS-Oberführer
Born	(1903-04-22)22 April 1903 Leipzig, German Empire
Died	16 May 1946(1946-05-16) (aged 43) Hamelin Prison, Allied-occupied Germany)
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1924–1945
Rank	SS-Brigadeführer
Commands held	Representative of Einsatzgruppen in the General Government of Poland
Other work	Perpetrator of genocide; executed as a war criminal Participated in the Wannsee Conference

Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (22 April 1903 – 16 May 1946) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was a war criminal who perpetrated mass murder and genocide in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Schöngarth was born in Leipzig, Saxony. In 1933 he became a member of the SD, the SS's own Intelligence Service. During the German attack on Poland he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer. He later served as a Senior Inspector for the RSHA in Dresden.

In January 1941 he was sent to Kraków, Poland, as Senior Commander of the SiPo and SD (BdS). During the time Schöngarth was stationed in Kraków, he formed several Einsatzgruppen (Special Action Groups) in Warsaw, Radom, and Lublin, with the intention of perpetrating massacres. He was responsible for the murder of up to 10,000 Jewish citizens between July and September 1941 and the massacre of Lviv professors behind the frontline of Operation Barbarossa in the Soviet Union. Schöngarth attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, along with Dr. Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppen A), who had also participated in the Holocaust. From early July 1944 until the end of war he was the BdS in the Netherlands.