Erich Wasicky
Deceased Person
1911 – 1947
Who was Erich Wasicky?
Erich Wasicky was a pharmacist at the Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims.
Wasicky was a physician. He joined the NSDAP and was a member of the SS. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked as a pharmacist at Mauthausen concentration camp. It was his duty to select victims to die in the gas chamber. The exact number of his victims is not known, but more than 3,100 died in neighboring Hartheim concentration camp, which fell under Wasicky's jurisdiction. After the Nazis started using the poison Cyclon B, Wasicky was put in charge of establishing this process in both Mauthausen and Hartheim.
After the end of World War II, Wasicky was charged with murder by a U.S. military tribunal. On May 13, 1946, he was found guilty. On May 28, 1947, he was hanged in Landsberg Prison.
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- Born
- May 27, 1911
Vienna - Nationality
- Austria
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- May 28, 1947
Landsberg am Lech
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on July 23, 2013
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