Fridrich Karl Kuczyński, another common spelling Fridrich Kuczyńsky (1914, Suczów - 1948 or February 22, 1949) – war criminal, national socialist, head of the department for Jews at the Special Plenipotentiary of Reichsfurer SS and Chief Police for Employment of Foreign Nationalities in the area of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie. Participant, among others, in the selection on August 12, 1942, on the pitch of the Hakoach sports club in Będzin ghetto, when people who were later deported to extermination camp were selected. For crimes committed during the occupation against the Jewish nation, responsible for some 100,000 victims, he was sentenced in 1948 by the District Court in Sosnowiec to death penalty . The sentence was carried out by hanging. Kuczynski was a member of the Organization Schmelt (Dienststelle Schmelt). The selections of Jews were carried out by officials from the Schmelt department, in particular by Friedrich Karl Kuczynski. "Schmelt's office was represented with its own quarters in the Auschwitz concentration camp." He always wore civilian clothes. See also Organization Schmelt Hunt for the Jews References Nazi war criminals Poland in World War II Collaboration with the Axis Powers 1914 births 1940s deaths Year of death uncertain World War II crimes in Poland The Holocaust in Poland Poland Massacres in Poland