Anton Endres

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Anton Endres (born June 3, 1909 , †   May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and used as an SS medical officer in the Dachau and Majdanek concentration camps .

Life

Endres, married and the father of three children, was drafted into the Waffen SS on September 7, 1939 and at the same time deployed to the Dachau concentration camp. There he completed a qualifying course up to a car accident in November 1939, which was followed by a long hospital stay. He then worked in Oranienburg , probably in the inspection of the concentration camps . From December 1940 to June 1941 he served as an SS medical officer for the troop doctor and was responsible for the medical care of the guards at the Dachau location. He then took on additional tasks in the prisoner infirmary of the Dachau concentration camp until May 1942. His direct superiors were Enno Lolling and then Waldemar Wolter . According to his own account, his tasks included not only "caring for" the patients, handling the correspondence, ordering medication and monitoring the sanitary conditions in the sick buildings. Endres is said to have supported the dreaded Revierkapo Josef Heiden in the prisoner infirmary, although his superior supported him with pseudo-medical treatments and also acts of violence against prisoners:

“ Kapo Heiden ordered the prisoners to lie down on the examination table and gave them a light dose of anesthetic. If, in Heiden's opinion, the prisoner was simulating what Heiden thought could be distinguished from waking up from a light stupor, they [Heiden and Endres] would beat him with wet towels. Then they wrapped the patient in heavy woolen blankets and placed him in a cold shower for three to four hours. The blankets soaked up and the patient died of high fever and hypothermia. "

In May 1942 Endres was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp , where he again worked as an SS medical officer until June 1943. Together with Erich Mußfeldt , Endres was briefly assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in early April 1943 . While Mußfeldt got to know the cremation of corpses in open pits there, Endres was supposed to “ familiarize himself with the type of extermination in gas chambers ”. From mid-1943 he was again employed as a paramedic in a Dachau satellite camp in Augsburg . In November 1943 Endres was arrested for allowing prisoners to leave the camp without authorization. He was therefore interned as a remand prisoner in Dachau and Weimar from November 1943 to September 1944 . He was then sent as a prisoner to the prison camp of the SS and police in Dachau, where he was imprisoned until April 30, 1945. On May 20, 1944, Endres was expelled from the SS.

He was then interned by the US Army . On November 15, 1945, Endres in Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place when war American US by a military court indicted and on 13 December 1945, 35 other co-defendants to death by the strand convicted. In the judgment, the severe abuse of prisoner patients, the two-time participation in executions and the killing of a prisoner by an injection were taken into account as individual acts of excess in Endres . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statement by Heinrich Stöhr (1940–1945 in Dachau concentration camp) in the main Dachau trial at the end of 1945 about the atrocities committed by Reviercapo Josef Heiden and SS medical officer Anton Endres (excerpt), source: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv München, cited in: Diseases and Nursing (PDF; 329 kB) .
  2. ^ Statement by Erich Mußfeldt on September 8, 1947 in Cracow, quoted in: Barbara Schwindt: The Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp: Functional Change in the Context of the “Final Solution” , Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, p. 161
  3. ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 319.
personal data
SURNAME Endres, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS members, paramedics in the Dachau and Majdanek concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1909
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1946
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison