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Franz Karl Reichleitner (2 December 1906 – 3 January 1944) was an Austrian member in the SS of Nazi Germany who participated in Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. Reichleitner served as the second and last commandant of Sobibór extermination camp from 1 September 1942 until the camp's closure on or about 17 October 1943. [2]
Commandant of Sobibor Death Camp 1942-1943. Franz Karl Reichleitner was born on 2 December 1906, in Ried, Austria. He was a member of the Linz Gestapo, with the rank of Kriminalsekretar. After service in the T4 euthanasia institution at Hartheim, in Austria, he was appointed to the post of Commandant at the Sobibor death camp in Poland ...
Franz Karl Reichleitner (* 2. Dezember 1906 in Ried im Traunkreis, Österreich; † 3. Jänner 1944 bei Rijeka, Istrien) war ein österreichischer Kriminalpolizist und SS-Führer. Reichleitner war während der Aktion T4 in der NS-Tötungsanstalt Hartheim eingesetzt und später im Rahmen der Aktion Reinhard Kommandant im Vernichtungslager Sobibor
REICHLEITNER, Franz (2 December 1906 Ried; † Januaryi 1944 Fiume, Italië) Before he took over from Stangl in August 1942 as commander of Sobibor, Reichleitner was Kriminalsekretär with the Gestapo in Linz. After Himmler’s visit to Sobibor on 12 February 1943 he was promoted to Hauptsturmführer. He rarely showed his face in the camp, but ...
Transportation difficulties, then, caused Sobibor to halt operations from late July to early fall of 1942. When Franz Reichleitner took over from Stangl (who was transferred to Treblinka), the new commandant oversaw the resumption of systematic killing in October of that year.
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Oct 2, 2020 · Stangl’s deputy was fellow Austrian Franz Reichleitner. Reichleitner had also worked with Stangl at Hartheim. In August 1942, he succeeded Stangl as commandant of Sobibor. Stangl himself was transferred to Treblinka. Reichleitner remained commandant until Sobibor was liquidated in November 1943.
Oct 29, 2020 · On snapshots from the garrison area, Niemann and camp commandant Franz Reichleitner, the sadistic Lagerspiess Gustav Wagner, and the self-declared Gasmeister Erich Bauer are seen relaxing on a terrace surrounded by garden flowers.
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