Arthur noon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arthur Mittag (born July 16, 1906 in Gottleuba ; † August 20, 1946 in Radebeul ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved in Nazi murders as part of child euthanasia .

Life

After finishing his school career, the doctor's son Mittag completed a medical degree at the universities of Würzburg , Rostock , Erlangen , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig . Initially, the psychiatrist was at the Arnsdorf State Institute at noon and specialized in racial hygiene .

After the National Socialists seized power in May 1933, Mittag had joined the NSDAP and had been a member of the SA since 1934 , where he held the rank of medical officer. From November 1934, Mittag was employed at the Leipzig-Dosen Institute , where from July 1935 he headed the hereditary biology department. From 1936 he was an employee at the Racial Political Office of the NSDAP . Furthermore, he was an assessor at the Hereditary Health Court and worked at the local marriage counseling center, which was based on racial hygiene. Mittag is said to have been one of the few experts who rejected compulsory sterilization rather than suggesting it. At the University of Leipzig he was awarded a doctorate in 1938 with the dissertation "On some of the factors influencing the chances of success in the treatment of cardiazole cramps in schizophrenia". med. PhD. He had been married to a nurse since March 1938, and the couple had a son in 1941.

From October 1940 , Mittag was in charge of the so-called “ children's department ” at the Leipzig-Dosen institution , which was transferred to the Großschweidnitz institution due to the war in December 1943 , where Mittag again took over the department management. On his instructions, around 800 children were murdered at both locations with the help of the lethal anesthetic Luminal .

After the end of the war, his employment at the Großschweidnitz institution was terminated in October 1945. He then practiced as a general practitioner in Bad Gottleuba on the instructions of the Soviet military administration . After he was arrested for participating in the children's euthanasia, he committed in the Radebeul custody suicide by injection of 30 resolved Luminaltabletten.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 312. Klee gives August 20th as the day of death, whereas Caris-Petra Heidel: Schauplatz Sachsen: From the propaganda center for racial hygiene to the stronghold of euthanasia . In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly medicine in National Socialism: from racial hygiene to mass murder. Weimar 2008 on p. 144 states August 21.
  2. ↑ a b The Luminal Murderer: Arthur Mittag . In: Child euthanasia in Leipzig - Eene, Meene, Muh And Raus Are You. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 412.
  4. ^ A b c Caris-Petra Heidel: Schauplatz Sachsen: From the propaganda center for racial hygiene to the stronghold of the sick “euthanasia”. In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly medicine in National Socialism: from racial hygiene to mass murder. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2008, ISBN 3-412-23206-8 , p. 144
  5. ↑ sanatorium Leipzig-Doze ( Memento of 6 March 2016 Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Ralf Julke: 505 or How paediatricians in Leipzig made killing a program ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Leipziger Internet newspaper from July 12, 2008.
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews. Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Noon, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noon, Artur (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and euthanasia offender
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottleuba
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1946
Place of death Radebeul