Erwin Lambert
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| Birth name | Erwin Hermann Lambert |
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7 December 1909 Schildow, Mühlenbecker Land, German Empire |
| Died | 15 October 1976 (aged 66) Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Rank |
 Unterscharführer, SS (Corporal) |
| Commands held | Headed construction of gas chambers during Action T4, and at Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps during Operation Reinhard |
| Other work | Mason, Ceramic tile salesman |
Erwin Hermann Lambert (7 December 1909 – 15 October 1976) was a perpetrator of the Holocaust. In profession, he was a master mason, building trades foreman, Nazi Party member and member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of SS-Unterscharführer (corporal). He supervised construction of the gas chambers for the Action T4 euthanasia program at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg and Hadamar, and then at Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. He specialized in building larger gas chambers that killed more people than previous efforts in the extermination program.
Lambert was born on 7 December 1909 in Schildow, a small town in Mühlenbecker Land, in the Niederbarnim district. His father was killed in the First World War; his stepfather owned a construction firm in Schildow. After basic schooling, Lambert became an apprentice, first to a locksmith, and then to a mason. After passing his apprentice exam, he attended a school for the building trades in Berlin in the mid-1920s and passed his examination for master mason in the mid-1930s. He was always employed as a mason and, after becoming a master mason, as a foreman for various Berlin construction firms.
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