# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stefan-baretzki
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:36:41.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stefan-baretzki"
name: "Stefan Baretzki"
slug: "stefan-baretzki"
description: "Stefan Baretzki was an Auschwitz guard of Bukovina German origin. He was conscripted into the Waffen-SS and stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 until 1945. There he participated in the mass murder by making selections, beatings and murdering prisoners on his own initiative. After the war, Baretzki settled in West Germany. He was the lowest-ranking of the twenty-four defendants in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. His murders were sensationalized in the German press, taking the focus off the systematic crimes of the Nazi regime. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment and eight years for participating in the murder of more than 8,000 people. Baretzki expressed regret for his actions, testified against his former superiors, and committed suicide while serving his sentence."
tagline: "SS guard at Auschwitz of Romanian Volksdeutsche origin (1919–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stefan_Baretzki_head_and_shoulders.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-03-24"
deathDate: "1988-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.21
  momentum:             2.542918454935623
  historical:           8.629998666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A4%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "סטפן ברצקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Baretzki"
    title: "Stefan Baretzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Барецки, Штефан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump