93,821 profiles ranked live

Back to the boardThe board

Otto Förschner

✓ Source-basedfalling

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

Lived 1902 to 1946 · aged 43
Compare
Fame49.1
Momentum0.7
Languages13
In century#46,612

Otto Förschner was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 2

Dead workers lie in uneven rows on floors of barracks at Nordhausen.Dead workers lie in uneven rows on floors of barracks at Nordhausen.

Awards 1

War Merit Cross

Connected to Otto 6

Fritz SuhrenAlso won War Merit CrossFriedrich EngelAlso won War Merit CrossHorst BöhmeAlso won War Merit CrossJosef KlehrAlso won War Merit CrossKarl JägerAlso won War Merit CrossWalter HuppenkothenAlso won War Merit Cross

About this person

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.

Type
Other
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1946 · aged 43
Written about in
13 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.