Hans Aumeier was a Nazi war criminal, an SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. From autumn 1943 to August 1944 Commandant of the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia. 1944-1945 served at the Kaufering concentration camp at Dachau, February-May 1945 at the Grin concentration camp at Mysen, Norway. Sentenced to death on 22. December 1947 in Cracow and hanged with 20 others of Auschwitz staff on 24 January 1948.