Erich Muhsfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erich Muhsfeldt

SS officer

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1913

Place of Birth: Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1948

Profession: physician, politician, concentration camp guard

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Erich Mußfeldt, (18 February 1913 – 24 January 1948) was a German war criminal, an SS NCO who served in two extermination camps during World War II in occupied Poland: Auschwitz and Majdanek.
He was arrested and charged by the Allies originally in 1946, then transferred to Poland where the full extent of his war crimes was revealed thanks to new evidence.
He was retried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków, and found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Muhsfeldt was sentenced to death by hanging in December 1947, and executed on 24 January 1948.Muhsfeldt was a baker in civilian life.
At the time of his service in the SS-Totenkopfverbände he was reportedly married with one son.
The fate of his wife is unclear.
According to Miklós Nyiszli, his wife was killed in an air raid, and his son sent to the Russian front.