Karl Eberhard Schöngarth

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Dr. Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (April 22, 1903 – May 16, 1946) was a Nazi associated with the Holocaust during World War II.

Schöngarth was born in Leipzig, Germany. He became a member of the SD Sicherheitsdienst Intelligence Service of the SS Schutzstaffel in 1933. He was later made head of SIPO Sicherheitspolizei Security Police. He was then appointed Commander of the Gestapo in the Netherlands.

During the time he was stationed in Kraków, Poland, he formed an Einsatzgruppen Special Action Group. He was responsible for the murder of up to 4,000 Jewish citizens between July and September of 1941.

He attended the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, along with Dr Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppen A) who also had participated in genocide.

Schöngarth was captured at the end of the war. He was found guilty of executing a downed Allied pilot (which occurred on November 21, 1944) by a British Court in Burgsteinfurt on February 11, 1946. He was executed by hanging on May 16, 1946.

In the 2001 HBO film Conspiracy he was played by Peter Sullivan