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	: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>		: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>
	==Death==		==Death==
	The revisionist [[Germar Rudolf]] has written on problematic "confessions" and stated that "''As another example, take the confession by Franz Ziereis, last commander of the Mauthausen camp, who was shot in the stomach three times and was thereupon not sent to a hospital, but instead interrogated by a former inmate of Mauthausen, [[Hans Marsalek]], while bleeding to death. In his “deathbed confession,” Ziereis is said to have testified the following:''<ref name=HH15>~~Holocaust~~ Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the ~~Holocaust—Controversial~~ Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15</ref>		The revisionist [[Germar Rudolf]] has written on problematic "confessions" and stated that "''As another example, take the confession by Franz Ziereis, last commander of the Mauthausen camp, who was shot in the stomach three times and was thereupon not sent to a hospital, but instead interrogated by a former inmate of Mauthausen, [[Hans Marsalek]], while bleeding to death. In his “deathbed confession,” Ziereis is said to have testified the following:''<ref name=HH15>Holohoax Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15</ref>

	: “''SS Gruppenführer Glücks gave the order to designate the weak prisoners as sick and to kill them by gas in a large installation. There, around 1-1 1 / 2 million persons were killed. The area in question is named Hartheim and is located 10 kilometers in the direction of Passau. [...] right after the war and during the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, these confessions were taken seriously (IMT, vol. 11, pp. 331f.). The room in Hartheim castle that is today claimed to have been this gas chamber measures some 280 sq ft (Marsalek 1988, p. 26). [...] three to five times as many people are said to have been killed in this tiny room, if we follow Ziereis or rather Marsalek, than Americans ever died during WWII in the European theater of war.''"<ref name=HH15/>		: “''SS Gruppenführer Glücks gave the order to designate the weak prisoners as sick and to kill them by gas in a large installation. There, around 1-1 1 / 2 million persons were killed. The area in question is named Hartheim and is located 10 kilometers in the direction of Passau. [...] right after the war and during the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, these confessions were taken seriously (IMT, vol. 11, pp. 331f.). The room in Hartheim castle that is today claimed to have been this gas chamber measures some 280 sq ft (Marsalek 1988, p. 26). [...] three to five times as many people are said to have been killed in this tiny room, if we follow Ziereis or rather Marsalek, than Americans ever died during WWII in the European theater of war.''"<ref name=HH15/>
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	== External links ==		== External links ==
	{{~~Holocaust~~ individuals links}}		{{Holohoax individuals links}}
	*[http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/ZiereisDeath.html The confession of Franz Ziereis, Commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp]		*[http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/ZiereisDeath.html The confession of Franz Ziereis, Commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp]
	*[http://codoh.com/library/document/233/ Not Guilty at Nuremberg, The German Defense Case] - the section on "Ernst Kaltenbrunner"		*[http://codoh.com/library/document/233/ Not Guilty at Nuremberg, The German Defense Case] - the section on "Ernst Kaltenbrunner"
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	'''Franz Xaver Ziereis''' (b. 13 August 1905 in [[München]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[German Empire]]; d. 24 May 1945 in Gusen, [[Allied-occupied Germany]]) was a German merchant, non-commissioned officer of the [[Reichswehr]] as well as the [[Wehrmacht]] and officer of the [[SS]], at last [[SS-Standartenführer]] and commandant of the [[Mauthausen]] camp during [[WWII]].		'''Franz Xaver Ziereis''' (b. 13 August 1905 in [[München]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[German Empire]]; d. 24 May 1945 in Gusen, [[Allied-occupied Germany]]) was a German merchant, non-commissioned officer of the [[Reichswehr]] as well as the [[Wehrmacht]] and officer of the [[SS]], at last [[SS-Standartenführer]] and commandant of the [[Mauthausen]] camp during [[WWII]].

	==Life==		==Life==
	[[File:Mauthausen, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Ziereis.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|300px\|[[Reichsführer SS]] [[Heinrich Himmler]] with Lagerkommandant SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Ziereis and SS-Gruppenführer Dr. [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] at Mauthausen, April 1941]]		[[File:Mauthausen, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Ziereis.png\|thumb\|300px\|[[Reichsführer SS]] [[Heinrich Himmler]] with Lagerkommandant SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Ziereis and SS-Gruppenführer Dr. [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] at Mauthausen, April 1941]]
	[[File:Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (Mitte).~~jpg~~\|thumb\|300px\|Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (center) with two of his NCOs]]		[[File:Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (Mitte).png\|thumb\|300px\|Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (center) with two of his NCOs]]
	[[File:Murdered Franz Ziereis 1945.jpeg\|thumb\|300px\|After Franz Ziereis was murdered, the [[US-Americans]] invaders allowed former prisoners to hang his corpse on the camp fence in Gusen I like a slaughtered pig.]]		[[File:Murdered Franz Ziereis 1945.jpeg\|thumb\|300px\|After Franz Ziereis was murdered, the [[US-Americans]] invaders allowed former prisoners to hang his corpse on the camp fence in Gusen I like a slaughtered pig.]]
	: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>		: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>

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	'''Franz Xaver Ziereis''' (b. 13 August 1905 in [[München]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[German Empire]]; d. 24 May 1945 in Gusen, [[Allied-occupied Germany]]) was a German merchant, non-commissioned officer of the [[Reichswehr]] as well as the [[Wehrmacht]] and officer of the [[SS]], at last [[SS-Standartenführer]] and commandant of the [[Mauthausen]] camp during [[WWII]].		'''Franz Xaver Ziereis''' (b. 13 August 1905 in [[München]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], [[German Empire]]; d. 24 May 1945 in Gusen, [[Allied-occupied Germany]]) was a German merchant, non-commissioned officer of the [[Reichswehr]] as well as the [[Wehrmacht]] and officer of the [[SS]], at last [[SS-Standartenführer]] and commandant of the [[Mauthausen]] camp during [[WWII]].

	==Life==		==Life==
	[[File:Mauthausen, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Ziereis.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|300px\|[[Reichsführer SS]] [[Heinrich Himmler]] with Lagerkommandant SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Ziereis and SS-Gruppenführer Dr. [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] at Mauthausen, April 1941]]		[[File:Mauthausen, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Ziereis.png\|thumb\|300px\|[[Reichsführer SS]] [[Heinrich Himmler]] with Lagerkommandant SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Ziereis and SS-Gruppenführer Dr. [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] at Mauthausen, April 1941]]
	[[File:Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (Mitte).~~jpg~~\|thumb\|300px\|Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (center) with two of his NCOs]]		[[File:Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (Mitte).png\|thumb\|300px\|Kommandant SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Ziereis (center) with two of his NCOs]]
	[[File:Murdered Franz Ziereis 1945.jpeg\|thumb\|300px\|After Franz Ziereis was murdered, the [[US-Americans]] invaders allowed former prisoners to hang his corpse on the camp fence in Gusen I like a slaughtered pig.]]		[[File:Murdered Franz Ziereis 1945.jpeg\|thumb\|300px\|After Franz Ziereis was murdered, the [[US-Americans]] invaders allowed former prisoners to hang his corpse on the camp fence in Gusen I like a slaughtered pig.]]
	: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>		: ''Ziereis was born August 13, 1905, in Munich. After attending commercial school in Munich, he signed up as a career military officer in Germany's Reichswehr (army) on April 1, 1924, for 12 years. On September 30, 1936, he left the army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände\|SS Death's Head]] detachment "Brandenburg." In the spring of 1938 Ziereis participated with SS mobile units in the occupation of Austria. On July 1, 1938, he was transferred to the SS Death's Head regiment "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by the inspector of the concentration camps, Theodor Eicke, Ziereis was sent from Buchenwald to Mauthausen on February 9, 1939, to take over the post of Commandant of Mauthausen, replacing Albert Sauer. On August 25, 1939, Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major) and, on April 20, 1944, due to "special achievements" as camp commandant, eventually to the rank of SS-Standartenführer (SS colonel). After May 3, 1945, Ziereis fled together with his wife, but was discovered by American soldiers at his hunting lodge on the Phyrn mountain in Upper Austria on May 23. He tried to escape but was shot and seriously wounded.''<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/franz-ziereis Franz Ziereis (1905-1945)]</ref>