Georg Bautler 1904 - 1943 Edit
Born 7.1.1904 in Cham (Oberpfalz)
Died 9.9.1943 in Mauthausen
Biography
Georg Bautler was born on 7 January 1904 in Cham.[1] A single man, he later lived in Munich at 48 Schwanthalerstraße and worked in business.
The 32-year-old was probably arrested by the Munich Gestapo as early 10 August 1936 under suspicion of violating § 175 of the German Criminal Code (StGB). On 16 September 1936 he was sent to Dachau concentration camp as a ‘homosexual protective custody prisoner’ and was assigned prisoner number 18652.[2] On 27 September 1939 he was transported on to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was given prisoner number 130. He died in the Mauthausen concentration camp on 9 September 1943 at the age of 39, allegedly of heart failure, but in reality more likely from the exertions and hardships of years of concentration camp imprisonment and forced labour and the lack of food in the concentration camps.
Rainer Hoffschildt
[1] Archive of the Yad Vashem Memorial, Jerusalem, Microfilm Project of Yad Vashem; documents from the International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen; Archive of the Dachau Memorial; Federal Ministry of the Interior, Vienna, Archive of the Mauthausen Memorial. I would like to thank Albert Knoll, Dachau Memorial, and Prof. Rüdiger Lautmann, Berlin, who researched at the ITS in Bad Arolsen, for providing additional information.
[2] Variant arrival dates are to be found in Yad Vashem: 4 June, no. 15590; 3 August 1938, no. 18341 and 21 September 1938, no. 18652.
