# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erich-bauer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:01:42.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erich-bauer"
name: "Erich Bauer"
slug: "erich-bauer"
description: "Erich Bauer, sometimes referred to as \"Gasmeister\", was a low-level commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator. He participated in Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard, when he was a gas chamber operator at Sobibór extermination camp. In 1950 he was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment."
tagline: "Holocaust perpetrator (1900–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Reichleitner_(links)%2C_Erich_Bauer%2C_der_%E2%80%9EGasmeister%E2%80%9C_von_Sobibor_(Mitte%2C_mit_K%C3%BCchenhilfe)_und_Johann_Niemann_(rechts).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1900-03-26"
deathDate: "1980-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.85072933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump