Leopold Trauner (born December 12, 1883, May 27, 1947) is a civilian supervisor in the quarries of the Gusen concentration camp and war criminal.

An Austrian who from August 1939 to May 1945 was employed as a supervisor at the quarry of the Gusen camp (KL Mauthausen sub-camp). The Trauner ordered the capo to cruelly treat the prisoners, and personally tormented them. In the aftermath of the war, three thousand people died in the quarry.

Leopold Trauner was convicted in the trial of Mauthausen-Gusen (US vs. Johann Altfuldisch and others) by the American Military Tribunal in Dachau for the death penalty. The sentence was made by hanging in the Landsberg prison on May 27, 1947. Bibliography

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