Gustav Franz Kreindl (born July 21, 1903 in Linz, † May 27, 1947 in Landsberg) was a German SS sergeant and SS medical rank (SDG) at the Ebensee concentration camp.
Gustav Kreindl was born the unmarried child of the clothes maker Barbara Kreindl.[1] After his compulsory debt he learned to be a hairdresser and opened a special women’s hairdressing salon in 1931. On May 1, 1938, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 6,373,419). In Linz he worked as a block and cell leader for the Volksgarten-Linz group.[2] On October 15, 1940, he was drafted into the Waffen-SS in Oranienburg.[3] However, since he was not fit for the front due to a chronic lung disease, he first received basic medical training and worked as a hairdresser in Oranienburg for a while.[2] On April 1, 1944, he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp on the orders of Enno Lolling, the head of Office D for medical services and camp hygiene. There, as a medical rank (SDG), Kreindl was responsible for both the troops and the prisoners.[2]
On May 18, 1945, he was taken into US custody in Bad Ischl, and subsequently several former concentration camp prisoners from the Ebensee camp gave evidence of their memories, which weighed heavily on Kreindl. In addition, he ordered the inmates who worked in the inmates’ infirmary to kill sick inmates with injections.[4] During an interrogation, Kreindl himself admitted that the conditions in the inmates’ infirmary at Ebensee were very bad, but blamed the superior departments in Mauthausen and the responsible camp doctor, Willy Jobst. The allegations made against Kreindl at the Mauthausen main trial were. They ranged from the mistreatment of sick prisoners in the infirmary area to the shooting of a prisoner in January or February 1945 to participation in selections and the administration of lethal injections.[4] On May 13, 1946 he was sentenced to death by hanging. The verdict was carried out on May 27, 1947 in the Landsberg prison for war criminals.
- Christine Rabl: Hanging: The Austrians accused of the Dachau Mauthausen trialsbahoe books, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3903022829
- ↑ Christine Rabl: Hanging: The Austrians accused of the Dachau Mauthausen trialsVienna, 2018, p. 146.
- ↑ a b c Christine Rabl: Hanging: The Austrians accused of the Dachau Mauthausen trialsVienna, 2018, p. 147.
- ↑ Florian Freund: The dead of Ebensee. Analysis and documentation of the prisoners who died in the Ebensee concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. Vienna 2010, ISBN 9783901142574, p. 51.
- ↑ a b Christine Rabl: Hanging: The Austrians accused of the Dachau Mauthausen trialsVienna, 2018, p. 148.
