Franz Hössler
| Franz Hössler Franz Hößler |
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Franz Hößler in Allied custody, August 1945
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| Born |
4 February 1906 Oberdorf, German Empire |
| Died | 13 December 1945 (aged 39) Hameln, Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Years of service | 1933–45 |
| Rank |
 SS-Obersturmführer
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| Service number |
NSDAP #1,374,713 SS #41,940 |
| Unit |
 SS-Totenkopfverbände
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| Commands held |
Schutzhaftlagerführer Auschwitz Schutzhaftlagerführer Mittelwerk Schutzhaftlagerführer Bergen-Belsen |
Franz Hößler, also Franz Hössler (
listen ; 4 February 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II. Captured by the Allies at the end of the war, Hößler was charged with crimes against humanity in the First Bergen-Belsen Trial, found guilty, and sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging at Hameln Prison in 1945.
Hößler was born in 1906 in the town of Oberdorf, today Marktoberdorf, in the Schwabenland of the German Empire. The son of a foreman, he quit school early to become a photographer. Later employed as a warehouse worker, he was unemployed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He joined the Nazi Party in early November 1932 (member no. 1,374,713) and the SS (member no. 41,940). Hößler was married and had three children.
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