Gregor Formanek

Gregor was drafted into the Waffen-SS in early July 1943 and became a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from July 1943 to February 1945. Following the war, Gregor moved to Fürstenwalde/Spree but was arrested in November 1946 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. On 10 June 1947, Gregor was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor for crimes against humanity and was sent to Bautzen Prison. However, Gregor only served eight years and was released in September 1956.^[1]

Following his release, he became a confectioner in Maintal and a security guard in a factory in Offenbach am Main. Gregor retired in 1989 and became an official German citizen. In September 2023, Gregor, aged 99, was tried for 3,300 cases of abetting murders while he was a guard at Sachsenhausen. However, he was deemed unfit to stand trial due to medical reasons and the case was overturned by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court in December 2024. On 2 April 2025, Gregor died, aged 100.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}