The data used for this database was collected as part of a study carried out by Christiane Rothländer on Austrians working as guards and in the camp SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. So far, 163 persons could be identified by name.

Database of perpetrators at Auschwitz

Details

Last name

Carstens

First name

Johann

Date of birth

14.05.1901

Birthplace

Graz

Province

Steiermark

Time at Auschwitz

spätestens ab 01.09.1941

Unit/Function

2/SS-SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz 3/SS-SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz 1/SS-SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz Kommandantur-Stab KL Auschwitz-Monowitz III ab 28.5.1944: 3/SS- Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz-Monowitz III/Stabsscharführer der 3

Sources

BArch, R 9361-II/496225; BArch, R 9361-III/343334; BArch, B 563-1 KARTEI/3263564

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