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

Knäussel

First name

Georg

Date of birth

17.07.1906

Birthplace

Salzburg

Province

Salzburg

Time at Auschwitz

sp. 09.1941 – mind. 19.10.1944

Unit/Function

2/SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KL Auschwitz 8/SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KL Auschwitz SS-Standortverwaltung KL Auschwitz/ Abteilung Verpflegung: 26.10.1943 2/Stabskompanie KL Auschwitz

Sources

BArch, R 9361-III/352293

Back to overview