Karl Eberhard Schöngarth

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

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

During the time Schöngarth 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.

Schöngarth 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 murdering 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 Schöngarth was played by Peter Sullivan.