April 29, 1893 - Johann Reichhart
Reichhart carried out more than 3,000 executions over a career spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the immediate postwar period — making him one of the most prolific state executioners in modern European history. His work under the Nazi regime included the killing of political prisoners, resisters, and those condemned under the expanding machinery of wartime capital punishment. After 1945, he was briefly engaged by American occupation authorities before his career finally ended.
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Johann Reichhart (29 April 1893 – 26 April 1972) was a German state-appointed judicial executioner in Bavaria from 1924 to 1946. During the Nazi period, he executed numerous people who were sentenced to death for their resistance to the German government. After the war, he was employed as executioner by the US Military Government in Germany. In total, he executed 3,165 people.
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