Edmund Veesenmayer

Edmund Veesenmayer (12 November 1904 – 24 December 1977) was a high-ranking German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. He was a subordinate of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Joachim von Ribbentrop, and worked with Adolf Eichmann. He significantly contributed to the Holocaust in Hungary, in the Independent State of Croatia and in German occupied Serbia.

He was involved in dismembering Czechoslovakia in 1939, in the establishment of the Ustaše-run puppet state in Croatia following the April 1941 German invasion of Yugoslavia, and in the selection and installation of the 1941–1944 puppet regime of Milan Nedić, known as the Government of National Salvation, in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. Installed as the German plenipotentiary to Hungary in March 1944, he pressured the Hungarian government to cooperate in deporting Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. After World War II, Veesenmayer was tried and convicted at the Ministries Trial; in 1949, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, but was released after serving two years.