Hermann Langbein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Langbein

Austrian Righteous Among the Nations

Date of Birth: 18-May-1912

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1995

Profession: writer, historian, stage actor

Nationality: Austria, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hermann Langbein (18 May 1912 in Vienna, Austria – 24 October 1995 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian who fought in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigades for the Spanish Republicans against the Nationalists under Francisco Franco.
He was interned in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, and then sent to German concentration camps after the fall of France in 1940. Over the next few years he was imprisoned in several different camps (Dachau, Auschwitz and others). Interned in Auschwitz in 1942, Langbein was classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner and he was assigned as clerk to the SS-physician, which gave him access to documentation and first-hand knowledge about the medical mistreatment, torture and killings of other camp prisoners.
Langbein later used his knowledge to help establish the Auschwitz Committee and trials.
Langbein testified in the Auschwitz trials himself.
His prisoner number in the camp was 60.355. He was among the leadership of the International Resistance groups in the camps he was held in.
After 1945 he was General Secretary of the International Auschwitz Committee, and later Secretary of the "Comité International des Camps".