criminal_charge death_date death_place birth_place nationality criminal_penalty birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
knowingly allied nationals interned in concentration camps supplying poison gas used to kill jews and 16 may 1946 hamelin , germany berlin , german empire german hanged 14 august 1890 co-inventor of zyklon b bruno emil tesch.jpg bruno tesch
 bruno emil tesch chemist and entrepreneur
bruno tesch

bruno emil tesch -lrb- 14 august 1890 -- 16 may 1946 -rrb- was a german chemist and entrepreneur .
together with gerhard peters and walter heerdt , he invented the insecticide zyklon b , infamous for having been used by nazi germany to kill approximately a million of the victims of the holocaust .
he was the owner of tesch & stabenow -lrb- called `` testa '' -rrb- , a pest control company he co-founded in 1924 with paul stabenow in hamburg , germany , which was a major supplier of zyklon b to the nazi concentration camps .
following the end of world war ii , he was arrested by the british as a war criminal , tried , and executed .
