Edwin Jung

Edwin Jung as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Edwin Jung (born January 11, 1907 in Westerhausen in the Harz Mountains, † after 1946) was a German medic.

Live and act

Jung was the second son of the general practitioner Edwin Jung and his wife Marta, nee Freyberg. After attending the village school in Westerhausen, the pre-school of the state grammar school in Quedlinburg and the grammar school itself, which he left in spring 1925 with the university entrance qualification, he went to study at the University of Halle .

Jung studied modern languages ​​in Halle before turning to medicine in the winter semester of 1926/1927. He passed the preliminary medical examination in March 1930. After spending the 1930 summer semester in Kiel and the 1930/1931 winter semester in Innsbruck, Jung returned to Halle in the 1931 summer semester, where he finally passed the state medical examination on March 4, 1933.

From 1933 Jung worked as a medical intern at the Sudenburg Hospital in Magdeburg. In 1934 he received his doctorate from the Halle University Women's Clinic on the healing tendency of ruptured extrauterine pregnancies after surgery, leaving behind liquid blood and coagula in the free abdominal cavity , which was supervised by Ludwig Nürnberger , at the University of Halle as a Dr. med .

Around 1933, Jung joined the SS (membership number 255.916), in which he first issued the 21st SS standard (March 6, 1933 to November 18, 1934), the 16th SS standard (November 19, 1934 to November 31, 1934). March 1935) and the 5th SS standard (April 1, 1935 to October 14, 1935).

In October 1935. Young was a medical officer in the KZ Columbia House in Berlin added. At the beginning of 1936 he moved to the Dachau concentration camp as a camp doctor , where he stayed until 1937. In 1938 and 1939 he worked in the medical department of the inspector of the SS death's head associations and concentration camps . During the Second World War , Jung was a regimental doctor in the SS Totenkopf Artillery Regiment from 1939 to 1942 and then from 1942 to 1943 a division doctor in the SS Cavalry Division and from 1943 to 1944 a division doctor in the 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" . In the last months of the war he was corps doctor of the II SS Panzer Corps and the XIII SS Army Corps .

At the end of the war, Jung was taken prisoner by the Allies. He was subsequently interrogated as a witness in the context of the Nuremberg trials .

Promotions

• October 15, 1935: SS-Untersturmführer
• April 20, 1936: SS-Obersturmführer
• September 13, 1936: SS-Hauptsturmführer
• December 1, 1939: SS-Sturmbannführer
• June 21, 1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer
• April 20, 1944: SS Standartenführer

Fonts

• About the healing tendency of burst extrauterine pregnancies after surgery, leaving behind liquid blood and coagula in the free abdominal cavity , 1934. (Dissertation)

literature

• Günter Morsch (Ed.): From the Sachsenburg to Sachsenhausen. Pictures from the photo album of a concentration camp commandant . Metropol, Berlin 2007. (Series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Vol. 19) ISBN 978-3-938690-36-9 .