Alois Gaberle
Alois Gaberle (born September 30, 1907 in Oelz / Döberney , † November 17, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a Sudeten German camp doctor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
biography
Gaberle completed a degree in medicine and a doctorate Dr. med. In autumn 1938 he was a member of the Sudeten German Freikorps and from 1939 worked as an assistant doctor in the surgical department of the hospital in Iglau . Gaberle completed a course at the SS Medical Academy in Graz after being drafted into the Waffen-SS in 1943 (SS No. 363.185) . He then worked as a camp doctor in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from August 24, 1943 to January 1945. Gaberle was present on September 11, 1944 during experiments with poisonous ammunition on Soviet concentration camp prisoners in Sachsenhausen, during which five prisoners were murdered. He also took part in a human experiment in which the effects of a cyanide capsule were tested on an inmate. After the inmate bit into the cyanide capsule, he died immediately. In January 1945 Gaberle was transferred to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp , where he also worked as a camp doctor.
From 1950 he was again a registered doctor and practiced as a general practitioner in Hamburg-Harburg . Together with the former camp doctors of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Heinz Baumkötter and Otto Adam, Gaberle was indicted in the area of Nazi violent crimes in detention centers before the Münster district court. The subject of the negotiations was u. a. the participation of camp doctors in executions, selections and medical experiments resulting in death. On February 19, 1962 Gaberle was for aid to the murder sentenced to three years and three months in prison and Baumkötter to eight years in prison. Adam was acquitted. On March 29, 1963, the judgment was upheld by the Federal Court of Justice .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- LG Münster from February 19, 1962 , in: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen , Volume 18, 1978, pp. 215–331
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Research Institute, Historical Commission in Berlin: International Scientific Correspondence on the History of the German Labor Movement , Volume 31, Akademie Verlag, 1997, p. 195
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt 2007, p. 172.
- ^ Judith Hahn et al. (Ed.): Medicine in National Socialism and the system of the concentration camps. Contributions to an interdisciplinary symposium . Frankfurt 2005 ISBN 3935964749 , p. 69
- ↑ Alois Gaberle on www.dws-xip.pl
- ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt 1997, p. 175f.
- ↑ Concentration camp doctor in Sachsenhausen, born in 1903, came from Schumburg an der Desse
- ↑ Justice and Nazi Crimes, Volume XVIII ( Memento from June 22, 2014 on WebCite )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaberle, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudeten German concentration camp doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oelz / Döberney |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1982 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |