Eduard Roschmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Roschmann

SS officer

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Graz, Styria, Austria

Date of Death: 08-Aug-1977

Profession: lawyer, torturer, concentration camp guard

Nationality: Austria, Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Eduard Roschmann (25 November 1908 – 8 August 1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943.
He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities.
As a result of a fictionalised portrayal in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth and its subsequent film adaptation, Roschmann came to be known as the "Butcher of Riga".