Bruno Weber (doctor)

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Bruno Santa Maria Weber (* 21st May 1915 in Trier ; † 23. September 1956 in Homburg ) was a German physician and bacteriologist and hauptsturmführer (1944), of the Auschwitz concentration camp , the branch of the Waffen-SS Hygiene Institute launched .

Life

Weber graduated according to the SS doctor Hans Münch before the start of World War II in the United States by means of a scholarship , a study of the medicine and was a PhD . In 1937 he joined the SS (SS No. 420.759) and the NSDAP ( membership number 5.416.695). In 1942 Weber switched from the Wehrmacht to the Waffen-SS , where he reached the rank of Obersturmführer in January 1943 and rose to Hauptsturmführer in November 1944.

At the latest in May 1943 Weber Head was Hygienic-Bacteriological examination site of the Waffen-SS and Police South East in the satellite camp Rajsko of the concentration camp Auschwitz I . This institute went back to the suggestion of SS medical officer Eduard Wirths , who hoped it would contain typhus , dysentery and typhus epidemics . These epidemics in Auschwitz also threatened the camp personnel of the SS. The hygienic-bacteriological investigation center of the Waffen-SS and Police South-East had the following objectives:

  • Supply of the SS and police hospitals in the catchment area
  • Supply of the Auschwitz concentration camp and its satellite camps
  • Research and study of infections
  • Special tests such as blood, urine and fecal tests
  • Research and test series of new drugs ( sulfonamides )

Weber's employees included SS doctors Hans Münch as his deputy and Hans Delmotte . Inmate doctors were also forced to work in the Rajsko Hygiene Institute.

Some of these "special investigations", that is, human experiments , took place in Block 10 in the Auschwitz main camp, where Jewish women were barracked. The laboratory that evaluated Weber's experiments there on behalf of the prisoner doctor Dr. Slavka Kleinová. Among other things, blood was taken from inmates and inmates with other blood groups were injected to test for tolerance. This usually triggered a high fever. After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Weber was still employed as an SS doctor in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war he was arrested by members of the British army in July 1946 and transferred to Poland . On October 22, 1946, Weber was interrogated by employees of the Polish Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes on suspicion of involvement in crimes in Auschwitz. There he stated that he had "basically and officially nothing to do with the Auschwitz concentration camp". Weber was not prosecuted until his death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz ; Frankfurt am Main, 1980; P. 389f.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 426.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 657.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 402f.
  5. ↑ a b Mieczysław Kieta: The Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS and Police in Auschwitz, Hamburg 2004, p. 213ff.
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang: The women of Block 10. Medical experiments in Auschwitz. Hamburg 2011, pp. 167–175.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Bruno Nikolaus Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and bacteriologist as well as SS-Hauptsturmführer (1944)
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1956
Place of death Homburg