Fritz Buntrock
Fritz Buntrock | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
| Known for | Defendant at the Auschwitz Trial |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
Fritz Buntrock (8 March 1909 in Osnabrück – 24 January 1948 in Kraków) was a German war criminal, member of SS-Unterscharfuehrer (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was prosecuted at the first Auschwitz trial.[1]
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the gas chambers.[2] Buntrock was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on 28 January 1948.