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Otto Förschner (4 November 1902 – 28 May 1946) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander.
Otto Förschner (* 4. November 1902 in Dürrenzimmern bei Nördlingen; † 28. Mai 1946 in Landsberg am Lech) war ein deutscher SS-Sturmbannführer und Lagerkommandant des KZ Mittelbau-Dora .
Camp commandant throughout most of the short history of Dora and Mittelbau was SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Förschner, who had served in subsidiary positions at Buchenwald since February 1942, after service on the Eastern Front.
Otto Förschner was convicted by a US military tribunal and sentenced to death, along with 35 other co-defendants, on 13-12-1945. He was hanged in Landsberg prison by the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint on 28-05-1946, age 43.
Following the liberation of the concentration camp in 1945, trials were held by the British and Americans to prosecute the SS officials responsible for the atrocities at Mittelbau-Dora. In May 1946, Otto Förschner was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.
In February 1945, Otto Förschner, former commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, took over command of Kaufering. The camp doctor was Max Blancke [de; pl], who had worked at multiple concentration camps. Architect Hermann Giesler, a close associate of Adolf Hitler, was in charge of the bunker construction.
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Otto Förschner (4 November 1902 – 28 May 1946) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander. After serving with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, Förschner worked as a senior official at the Buchenwald concentration camp (1942-1943) and later served as the commandant of Mittelbau-Dora (1943-1945) and ...
