Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955.
Apart from his work within the United Kingdom, Pierrepoint also conducted executions at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison in the Irish Free State and the later Republic of Ireland; for the British colonial authorities in Gibraltar; in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt; at Graz-Karlau Prison in Austria; and most famously in the British occupation zone of Germany, at Hamelin, where he executed 156 Nazi war criminals.
The list of condemned includes Juana Bormann (Auschwitz); Irma Grese, the youngest concentration camp guard to be executed for crimes at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and Auschwitz (aged 22); and Elisabeth Volkenrath (Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz); plus another ten men including Josef Kramer (Camp Commandant at Belsen) and Fritz Klein, plus Georg Otto Sandrock and Ludwig Schweinberger, who had both been condemned for murdering Pilot Officer Gerald Hood of the RAF[1][2] (while Hood was a POW) at Almelo, Netherlands, on 21 March 1945.
All were subsequently executed on the gallows in a purpose-built room at Hamelin Prison on 13 December 1945 at roughly half-hour intervals.
For example, he performed the following eleven executions at Hamelin prison [de] on 8 October 1946,[citation needed] which resulted from the Neuengamme War Crimes Trial earlier the same year: