He was a roll call officer at KL Buchenwald, and lead guard in charge of the so-called protective custody at Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

The first time, he was prosecuted for murder and embezzlement and sentenced to death by SS Judge Georg Konrad Morgen in connection with the Koch trial.

He spent at least five months as a regular prisoner in Dachau concentration camp before being transferred to a penal battalion.

One witness testified that he had two block leaders bend a birch tree where he made a Jewish man hold onto it.

When the block leaders released the tree, the man was flung into the air into a stone quarry.