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

Leitner

First name

Gustav

Date of birth

17.07.1910

Birthplace

Neumarkt

Province

Steiermark

Time at Auschwitz

06.1940 – 04.1943

Unit/Function

06.1940-04.1941: 1/SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz 04.1941-1942: KZ Auschwitz/Außenkommando "Sola-Hütte/Porombka"""" 1942-04.1943: 4/SS-Totenkopf-Sturmbann KZ Auschwitz"""

Sources

BArch, R 9361-III/373657; BArch, B 305/6513

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