Alois Alteköster
Alois Alteköster (* 1931 ; † February 1968 in or near Huế , Vietnam ) was a German physician .
Career
Alois Alteköster was an assistant at the University Clinic in Düsseldorf when he applied for a development project in Vietnam in 1966. From November 1, 1966, he worked under the Freiburg pediatric professor Horst-Günther Krainick as part of an educational aid program of the German federal government at the medical faculty of the university in the South Vietnamese city of Huế .
During the Tet offensive of the Viet Cong and the conquest of the city, Alteköster was kidnapped on February 5, 1968 together with Krainick, his wife Elisabeth and the doctor Raimund Discher . All efforts, including those of Caritas President Georg Hüssler , to help the missing people were unsuccessful. On April 3, 1968, the German embassy in Saigon announced that the bodies of the four Germans had been found in a mass grave. Shots in the neck and the head were given as the cause of death.
See also: Hué massacre
Honors
- 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. (The medal was awarded posthumously - in response to the murder - and presented to relatives at the funeral service.)
literature
- Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961–1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011
- Nicolaus Schmidt , Viet Duc - German-Vietnamese biographies as a mirror of history , Bielefeld 2017 ISBN 978-3-7356-0484-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011
- ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011, p. 164
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alteköster, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around March 20, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hué, Vietnam or at Hué |