Anton Rolleder

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Anton Rolleder , also Anton Rolleder the Younger (* July 24, 1910 in Vienna ; † June 29, 1976 ibid.) Was an Austrian anthropologist , psychiatrist , neurologist , forensic scientist and Nazi official.

Life

Rolleder came from a National Socialist family. His father was Anton Rolleder senior (1881–1972), at the time of National Socialism a judge at the Vienna Hereditary Health Court . After graduating from high school in 1929, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna . While still a student he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 362.683) in December 1930 and the SA in 1931 . From the SA he switched to the SS in 1933 (SS-No. 308.247) and rose within this organization in November 1942 to become SS-Hauptsturmführer . For the party he worked as a block warden and explosives manager. After the July coup in 1934, Rolleder was briefly detained due to his National Socialist activities and was then monitored by the police. In 1937/38 he was adjutant of the SS-Ober section doctor Donau.

Rolleder completed his studies at the medical faculty with a doctorate and then completed a second degree in anthropology at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna. He then worked as an assistant doctor and in 1937/38 for half a year at the institutes for forensic medicine at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin. In November 1939 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Vienna. He then completed his specialist training to become a specialist in “nervous and mental diseases” at the University Clinic for Nerves in Vienna. From mid-1942 he was an assistant at the Vienna Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology and completed his habilitation in 1943 with a paper on "Ability to act in fresh skull shots". He had also published on topics related to race. He received the license to teach forensic medicine. From 1943 he was the local Nazi lecturer leader and also held the post of Gau Hauptstelleleiter in the Office for Public Health in the Gau Vienna. Furthermore, he headed the local “hereditary health marriage counseling center” and was a member of the “Asocial Commission” in the Reichsgau Vienna.

After the end of the Second World War , Rolleder was dismissed from the institute's service in 1945. He was arrested in Vienna in 1946 and sentenced by the People's Court in August 1946 to a heavy year in prison. He was a witness in the Steinhof trial. From 1949 on he worked as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry as well as a court expert in Vienna.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ingrid Arias: The Viennese forensic medicine in the service of National Socialist biopolitics - project report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 1f.
  2. ^ A b c Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 141-142.
  3. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 506.
  4. ^ A b Michael Hubenstorf: Dead and / or living science: The intellectual networks of Nazi patient murders in Austria. In: Heinz Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer: History of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna: From forced sterilization to murder . Böhlau Verlag Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99325-X , p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME Rolleder, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rolleder, Anton the Younger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian anthropologist, psychiatrist, neurologist, forensic doctor and Nazi official
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1976
Place of death Vienna