Biography: Georg Tauber
Georg Tauber was born on May 11, 1901 in Rosenheim. In 1918 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer and was then wounded in 1919 during street battles in Berlin. Treated with morphine to relieve the pain, Tauber developed an addiction. From 1924 he worked as a freelance advertising illustrator for the film and newspaper industry. He joined the Nazi Party in 1929, but left in March 1934. He was admitted to sanatoriums on several occasions because of his morphine addiction. In January 1940 he was imprisoned as an “asocial” in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from where he was transferred to Dachau in March.
Drawing of hypothermia experiments; evidence in the trials, - National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
Drawing of hypothermia experiments; evidence in the trials, - National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
After liberation Tauber used drawings to work through his experiences in the concentration camps. Some of these served as evidence in the Dachau and Nuremberg Trials. Georg Tauber died on October 21, 1950 as a result of tuberculosis. The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial showed Tauber’s drawings during the 2016 special exhibition: “Evidence for Posterity. The drawings of the Dachau survivor Georg Tauber”.