Occupation SS-Unterscharfuhrer Name Eduard Lorenz | Role Mathematician Fields Mathematics, Meteorology | |
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Born February 12, 1921 ( 1921-02-12 ) Neudorf Known for Defendant at the Auschwitz Trial Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) Died April 16, 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Books The essence of chaos, The nature and theory of the general circulation of the atmosphere Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Harvard University Notable awards Crafoord Prize, Kyoto Prize, Lomonosov Gold Medal People also search for James Murdoch Austin, Kevin E. Trenberth, Aiguo Dai | ||
Eduard Lorenz (born February 12, 1921) was an SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.
Born in Neudorf (Sudetenland), Lorenz was German by nationality with Czechoslovakian citizenship. He was a farmer. After the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich, he joined the SS and was sent to the front. Due to injury, he was unfit for further frontline service and was dispatched to Auschwitz at the end of January 1942. In August 1942 he worked as a guard, and then worked as a driver distributing food in the camp.
Lorenz was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków and received a 15-year prison sentence for abusing prisoners. He was acquitted of murder by entering a plea. Due to an amnesty, he was released from prison in the mid-1950s.