caption servicenumber native_name_lang death_date death_place placeofburial_coordinates birth_place birth_date placeofburial image article_title name
christian wirth nsdap # 420,383 german 26 may 1944 hrpelje-kozina , sr slovenia -lrb- major -rrb- oberbalzheim , german empire 24 november 1885 german military cemetery , costermano , italy wirth , christian.jpg christian wirth
 christian wirth
christian wirth

christian wirth -lrb- ; 24 november 1885 -- 26 may 1944 -rrb- was a german policeman and ss officer who was one of the leading architects of the program to exterminate the jewish people of poland , known as operation reinhard .
his nicknames included christian the terrible -lrb- -rrb- and the wild christian .
wirth worked at scaling up the action t4 program , in which disabled people were murdered by gassing or lethal injection , and then at scaling up operation reinhard , by developing extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder .
wirth served as inspector of all operation reinhard camps .
he was the first commandant of bełżec extermination camp .
he was later killed by yugoslav partisans in hrpelje-kozina near trieste .
