Alfred Fikentscher

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Alfred Fikentscher during the Nuremberg Trials

Alfred Fikentscher (born April 30, 1888 in Augsburg , † January 10, 1979 in Kiel ) was a German medical officer , most recently Admiral Chief Staff Doctor in World War II and chief medical officer of the Navy .

Life

Fikentscher became a member of the AGV Munich during his studies . On April 1, 1910, he joined the infantry body regiment of the Bavarian Army as a one-year volunteer . On April 1, 1914, he joined the Imperial Navy as a one-year volunteer marine doctor and was accepted into the active marine medical officer corps on May 11, 1914. During the First World War , Fikentscher initially worked as a half-flotilla doctor with the 2nd torpedo boat half-flotilla until April 1916 and then became an assistant doctor on the Great Cruiser Seydlitz . He stayed on board beyond the end of the war and was interned with the ship in Scapa Flow until then . After the Imperial Fleet was scuttled , he became a British prisoner of war , from which he was released in September 1920.

After his release he was initially made available and assigned to the Kiel-Wik naval hospital on October 6, 1920. At the same time he acted as a district doctor on the Hulk Kronprinz .

In the Navy he was in the rank of Admiralty Medical Officer from November 27, 1939 with the performance of the duties as head of the Naval Medical Office and with the final transfer to the post he was also chief medical officer of the Navy. It was in this role that he first drafted an instruction for this office, which was approved by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in July 1942 . On September 1, 1942, he was appointed Admiral Chief Staff Doctor. He was released from active military service on November 30, 1943, but from October 1943 until the end of the war he was head of the Office for Sanitary Planning and Economics directly to the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care, SS Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Waffen SS, Karl Brandt , subordinated. His successor as chief medical officer of the Navy was admiral staff doctor Emil Greul .

After the end of the Second World War, Fikentscher was summoned as a witness at the Nuremberg trials . The interrogation took place on September 6, 1946. In the post-war period, Fikentscher worked as an ophthalmologist in Kiel.

Fikentscher published his book Aim and Path of the National Opposition in 1962 . Yet in 1964 he represented Nazi ideas when he was in an article for the right-wing German National newspaper the children's euthanasia demanded: "I think ... the extinction of such a nature to be admissible." But he was also involved in party politics in right-wing extremist circles, for example he ran unsuccessfully on the Schleswig-Holstein state list in the 1961 federal election for the German Reich Party and in the 1965 federal election for the Action Group of Independent Germans .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 41.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Second updated edition. Frankfurt am Main 2005. p. 149.
  3. ↑ Names of the witnesses who were questioned or who testified during the Nuremberg trials (PDF; 186 kB)
  4. ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1929. p. 67.
  5. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 540.
predecessor Office successor
Sigmund Moosauer Chief Medical Officer of the Navy
1940–1943 		Emil Greul
personal data
SURNAME Fikentscher, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, medical officer and second chief medical officer in the Navy
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1979
Place of death Kiel