Erich Finke

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Erich Finke (born April 13, 1905 in Herne ; † May 4, 1945 in Neustadt in Holstein ) was a German internist and concentration camp doctor .

Finke studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Kiel Dr. med. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant doctor at Kiel University Hospital. He later worked as a medical officer in the Air Force and at the Air Force Hospital Westerland . Together with the doctor Sigmund Rascher, he assisted Professor Ernst Holzlöhner from August 1942 in carrying out hypothermia experiments on behalf of the Luftwaffe in the Dachau concentration camp . In these experiments, prisoners were deliberately hypothermic and then reheated using various methods. Finke took part in the conference on medical questions in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, as there was a lecture on the results of the cold tests. Finke, who was awarded the War Merit Cross II. Class with Swords in April 1943 , died in early May 1945 in a hospital in Neustadt / Holstein.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laborjournal online: What happened in Sudelfeld? ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 231f.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biotech-europe.de
  2. ↑ Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigel: Dachau Trials: Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945–1948. Procedure, results, aftermath , Wallstein Verlag, 2007, p. 143.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 150
personal data
SURNAME Finke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1945
Place of death Neustadt in Holstein