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Franz Ziereis was born on 13 August, 1905 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire, is a German SS officer (1905–1945). Discover Franz Ziereis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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39 years old |
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Leo |
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13 August, 1905 |
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13 August |
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire |
| Date of death |
24 May, 1945 |
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Mauthausen-Gusen, Upper Austria, Allied-occupied Austria |
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Munich
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Franz Ziereis Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Franz Ziereis Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Franz Ziereis worth at the age of 39 years old? Franz Ziereis’s income source is mostly from being a successful officer. He is from Munich. We have estimated Franz Ziereis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Franz Xaver Ziereis (13 August 1905 – 24 May 1945) was the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1939 until the camp was liberated by the American forces in 1945.
Ziereis was born on 13 August 1905 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (now in Bavaria, Germany), where he spent 8 years in elementary school and then began as an apprentice and messenger boy in a department store.
In the evenings he studied commerce.
In 1922 he went to work as a labourer in a carpentry shop.
Ziereis joined Germany's Reichswehr (army) on 1 April 1924, for a period of 12 years.
He was discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1936 and joined the SS on September 30 of the same year.
He attained the rank of SS-Obersturmführer and was assigned as a training instructor to the SS-Totenkopfverbände.
In 1937 he was given command of a Totenkopfverbände unit and later became a training instructor.
Zeireis replaced Albert Sauer as commandant of Mauthausen on 9 February 1939 by order of Theodor Eicke, Inspector of Concentration Camps.
On 25 August 1939, Ziereis received a promotion to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and, on 20 April 1944 he received his final promotion to SS-Standartenführer.
Ziereis fled with his wife on 3 May 1945.
He attempted to hide out in his hunting lodge on the Pyhrn mountain in Upper Austria.
However, large groups of liberated prisoners and American soldiers hunted him down.
He was eventually tracked down 100 miles away by an American army unit on 23 May 1945.
As the troops approached Ziereis, he opened fire on them.
American soldiers proceeded to shoot Ziereis three times in the stomach and brought him to a U.S. military hospital set up at the former Gusen I concentration camp.
Enraged prisoners had to be stopped from beating him to death.
Ziereis died shortly after interrogation by a former inmate of Mauthausen, socialist Hans Maršálek.
In a confession, he'd implicated several leading perpetrators at the camp, including Eduard Krebsbach, who'd ordered the building of the gas chamber at Mauthausen, Erich Wasicky, who'd built the gas van there, and Gauleiter August Eigruber, who was chiefly responsible for the conditions since the area fell under his jurisdiction.
His corpse was later hung on the fence of Gusen I by former prisoners of Gusen.
Krebsbach, Wasicky, and Eigruber were later tried at the Mauthausen Trial and executed.
