Alfred Kurzke

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Alfred Kurzke (born January 20, 1905 in Neuhammer , Silesia , † March 28, 1971 in Hanover ) was a German SS-Standartenoberjunker and was employed as a camp doctor in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .

Life

Kurzke, who had several professional qualifications, completed his medical studies in 1943 at the University of Marburg . He received his doctorate as Dr. med. with the dissertation Contribution to Kala-Azar , which appeared in 1944. Kurzke worked at the Marburg University Clinic until October 24, 1944, where he was involved in medical research.

Kurzke was briefly drafted into the Waffen SS as early as 1942 . At the end of October 1944 he was called up again for the Waffen SS, where he worked briefly in the medical department of the SS main office. From November 1944 to the beginning of April 1945 Kurzke worked as the second camp doctor and also in the SS infirmary. Kurzke was later described by the inmates as correct because he had behaved benevolently towards them. In the course of the evacuation of the Mittelbau concentration camp, Kurzke ended up in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the beginning of April 1945 , which was taken over by soldiers of the British army on April 14, 1945. Kurzke, who was briefly imprisoned after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, testified as a witness in the Bergen-Belsen trial on October 25, 1945. At that time, like Heinrich Schmidt , he was working as a doctor in the DP camp in Bergen-Belsen. Kurzke cooperated with the British and American investigators and was also a witness in the Dachau Dora trial , also known as the Nordhausen main trial.

Kurzke later worked as a resident doctor near Hanover . Kurzke also testified in the Dora trial in Essen (November 1967 to May 1970), in which Helmut Bischoff , the former KDS of the restricted area Mittelbau and his former employee Ernst Sander and the supervisor Erwin Busta were indicted.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
  • Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-439-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the German National Library: http://d-nb.info/480326215
  2. ↑ a b c Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of Death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 669.
  3. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 297.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353.
  5. ↑ Leo and Leopoldine Kuntz, Götz and Hannelore Dieckmann (eds.): Albert Kuntz : "Dearest Ellen ...", letters from prison, penitentiary and concentration camp 1933 to 1944 (pdf; 946 kB) , in: Rosa-Luxemburg- Foundation ; Vol. 21, Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02063-3 , pp. 305f.
personal data
SURNAME Kurzke, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camp doctor in the Mittelbau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhammer , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1971
Place of death Hanover