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Otto Förschner

German SS officer and concentration camp commander, convicted war criminal (1902-1946)

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Lived 1902–1946, aged 44
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    1902–1946
    Aged 44
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Updated 2026-06-21

Otto Förschner was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander. After serving with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, Förschner worked as a senior official at the Buchenwald concentration camp (1942–1943) and later served as the commandant of Mittelbau-Dora (1943–1945) and Kaufering (1945). Following the German defeat, he was convicted of war crimes by US occupation authorities at the Dachau trials and was hanged in May 1946.

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