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

Trescher

First name

Josef

Date of birth

22.02.1894

Birthplace

Pola

Province

SHS-Staat

Time at Auschwitz

12.6.1944 – 20.01.1945

Unit/Function

im Herbst 1944 NL Fürstengrube bis zur Auflösung des Lagers bis 01.1945: Kompanieführer der SS-Bewachungsmannschaft Fürstengrube im KZ Monowitz

Sources

BArch, R 9361-III/560341

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