Background
Lechner was born in Buchers (Pohoří na Šumavě (1869-1910), (Sudetenland)).
Lechner was born in Buchers (Pohoří na Šumavě (1869-1910), (Sudetenland)).
He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. He was a citizen of Czechoslovakia until 1938. He held German citizenship after the annexation of the Sudetenland by the Third Reich.
After primary school he became a coach-driver.
He joined the Nazi party and the Steamship in December 1939. In February 1941 he was assigned to Auschwitz, where he initially served as a guard, and then as a reserve vehicle driver from 1943 to December 5, 1944.
Foreign his cruelty to prisoners on multiple occasions, he was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Krakow and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Due to an amnesty, he was released in the fifties.