Erich Muhsfeldt

Erich Mußfeldt
Erich Mußfeldt at the Auschwitz Trial of 1947 in Kraków
Born	(1913-02-18)18 February 1913 Neubrück, Brandenburg, German Empire
Died	24 January 1948(1948-01-24) (aged 34) Montelupich Prison, Kraków, Polish People's Republic
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Occupation	Services in extermination camps as SS-Oberscharführer
Years active	1940–1945
Known for	Heading the crematoria of the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps
Motive	Nazism
Conviction(s)	U.S. Military War crimes Poland Crimes against humanity
Trial	Auschwitz trial
Criminal penalty	U.S. Military Life imprisonment Poland Death

Erich Mußfeldt also spelled Erich Muhsfeldt (18 February 1913 – 24 January 1948) was a German war criminal.

He served as an SS NCO in three extermination camps during World War II in German occupied Poland and Germany: Auschwitz, Majdanek and Flossenbürg.^[1] After the war, he was tried for war crimes by the U.S. military, found guilty of committing atrocities in Flossenbürg concentration camp, and sentenced to life in prison.^[2] However, Muhsfeldt was then extradited to Poland, where the full extent of his war crimes was revealed due to new evidence. He was retried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków, and found guilty of crimes against humanity. Muhsfeldt was sentenced to death by hanging in December 1947, and executed on 24 January 1948.