Roland Puhr

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Roland Puhr
Born	(1914-01-21)January 21, 1914 Staré Křečany, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died	April 15, 1964(1964-04-15) (aged 50) Leipzig Prison, Leipzig, East Germany
Cause of death	Execution by guillotine
Political party	Nazi Party
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	War crimes
Criminal penalty	Death
Military career
Allegiance	Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1938–1945
Rank	Unterscharführer
Unit	Totenkopfverbände

Roland Puhr (January 21, 1914 – April 15, 1964) was an SS-Unterscharführer who committed numerous atrocities at Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. After the war, he settled down in East Germany using forged papers. Puhr was exposed as a war criminal and executed the following year.

Puhr was born in Staré Křečany in Bohemia in 1914.^[1] He joined the Sudeten German Party in 1936.

In the 1930s, Puhr joined the Czechoslovakian military. In 1938, he deserted to join the Wehrmacht. In 1939, Puhr joined the Nazi Party. He was then assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände and sent to work as a guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. During his time, Puhr participated in the shootings of multiple Soviet POWs at the camp's execution grounds. Puhr personally murdered approximately 30 to 40 years prisoners. One of them was Austrian prosecutor Karl Tuppy, who initiated the prosecution of Otto Planetta for the murder of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934. Puhr was also suspected of targeted killings at a SS construction brigade near Düsseldorf.^[2] After war ended, Puhr went into hiding using forged papers.

In June 1963, Puhr was exposed and arrested by East German authorities and charged with committing war crimes. On December 16, 1963, he was found guilty by a court in Neubrandenburg. After Chairman of the State Council Walter Ulbricht rejected Puhr's plea for clemency, he was guillotined at Leipzig Prison on April 15, 1964. His remains were then cremated, and he was buried in an unmarked grave in an undisclosed location.