History and chronology of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess in Germany

General

NSDAP
World War, 2nd

Events

Adjutant
Administrator Dachau
Arrest
Birth
Chief Inspector
Commandant
Execution
NSDAP
Nuremberg War Trials
SS

Places

Auschwitz
Dachau
Nuremburg
Sachsenhausen

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess History of Germany


1900	Birth
Birth of Rudolph Hoess
1922	NSDAP
Appointed Member of the Nazi Party
1933	SS
Appointed Member of the SS
Appointed Member of the Waffen SS
1934	SS
1st Dec Appointed Member of the Deathshead Formation (Totenkopf Verband)
1938	Adjutant
Sachsenhausen Appointed Adjutant of Sachs enhausen concentration camp
1938	Administrator of Dachau
Dachau Appointed Administrator of Dachau concentration camp
1940	Commandant
1st May Auschwitz Appointed Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
1941	Commandant
1st May Auschwitz Heinrich Himmler tells H”ss that Hitler had given orders 'for the final solution"
1942	Execution
Auschwitz Mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B begins at Auschwitz
1943	Chief Inspector
Appointed Chief Inspector of the concentration camps
1944	Execution
An SS report, 'a true pioneer in this area because of his new ideas'
Auschwitz Executes about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944
1946	Arrest
Arrested by Allied military police, under the name of Franz Lang
1946	Nuremberg War Trials
Nuremburg Convicted & handed over to the Polish authorities
April Nuremburg Tried at the Nuremberg war crimes trial
5th April Nuremburg In a deposition estimates at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminate
5th April Nuremburg In a deposition estimates that 3,000,000 died under his command at Auschwitz
1947	Execution
Auschwitz Hoess is executed for his part played in the slaughter at Auschwitz