1. Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp where he worked as SS-Obersturmfuhrer from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942.
Irmfried Eberl was arrested after the end of the war in January 1948.
Irmfried Eberl was born in Bregenz, Austria on 8 September 1910.
Irmfried Eberl joined the Nazi Party on 8 December 1931 while still a medical student at the University of Innsbruck.
On 1 February 1940, at 29 years old, Irmfried Eberl became the medical director of the killing facility at Brandenburg.
When public outcry against Action T-4 forced its abandonment in Germany, Irmfried Eberl found himself out of work.
On 11 July 1942, Irmfried Eberl was transferred to the command of Treblinka as part of Operation Reinhard.
Dr Irmfried Eberl's ambition was to reach the highest possible numbers and exceed all the other camps.
Irmfried Eberl was dismissed from Treblinka on 26 August 1942, for incompetence in disposing of the bodies of the thousands of people who had been killed, and was replaced by Franz Stangl, who was previously the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp.
Irmfried Eberl was relieved of his duty because he was not killing people in an efficient and timely enough manner, and because he was not properly concealing the mass murder from locals.
Irmfried Eberl was apparently part of a ring at the camp that was stealing the possessions of the people whom they had murdered and sending them back to cohorts at Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin.
Irmfried Eberl was sent back to Bernburg Euthanasia Centre for a short spell afterwards.
Irmfried Eberl found himself a widower when his first wife died in July 1944.
Irmfried Eberl hanged himself in his cell the following month to avoid trial.