Elimar Precht
Elimar Lüder Precht (born May 25, 1912 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 7, 1969 in Offenburg ) was a German camp dentist in concentration camps and SS-Hauptsturmführer .
Life
After graduating from high school at the Rotteck-Oberrealschule in his hometown, Precht studied dentistry at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , which he completed in 1936 with a state examination. Then he worked as an assistant. At the beginning of the Nazi era he joined the SS in November 1933 (SS no. 233.392) and in May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5.257.289).
After the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Waffen SS and deployed in the SS disposal division (SS division "Reich"). From July 1942 to July 1943 he was a camp dentist in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and then in the Dachau concentration camp . In 1943 he rose to Hauptsturmführer, his highest SS rank. From the summer of 1944 he was the chief dentist in the Auschwitz concentration camp . After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, he was again chief dentist in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
After the end of the war, Precht was employed as an assistant doctor to his predecessor in the Auschwitz concentration camp Willy Frank in his Stuttgart dental practice. He later became a school dentist in Offenburg. As part of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial , Precht was interrogated in 1962, but not charged. He stated that he knew about the medical experiments in the Natzweiler concentration camp and that he had known before he was transferred to Auschwitz that it was an extermination camp . Furthermore, he stated that he had not carried out any ramp service or selection of people in the course of the arriving transports , although this was mandatory for camp doctors. Nor did he confiscate any dental equipment from deported dentists. However, Precht admitted that he had forwarded the gold teeth of the murdered people to the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office.
literature
- Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
- Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich - who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Prechtfurt am Main 2007, p. 471.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports , KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-11263-7 .
Web links
- Heiko Wegmann: The perpetrators from next door . In: Badische Zeitung from January 25, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heiko Wegmann: The perpetrators from next door . In: Badische Zeitung from January 25, 2014
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 322
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Precht, Elimar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Precht, Elimar Lüder (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German camp dentist in concentration camps and SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1969 |
| Place of death | Offenburg |