Erich Straub

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Erich Straub (born August 26, 1885 in Durlach ; † April 29, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved in euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era .

Life

After attending secondary school, Straub studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg , Rostock and Leipzig . He graduated in 1911 with a doctorate to the Dr. med. and was a licensed physician from 1912 . At first Straub worked at the sanatorium and nursing home in Neustadt and from 1919 worked as a senior physician at the provincial sanatorium and nursing home in Schleswig-Stadtfeld .

Straub became a member of the NSDAP in Munich in 1922/23 . After the party ban, he joined the NSDAP again on September 17, 1926 with membership number 43,987. In December 1929 Straub was the first member of the NSDAP to move into Schleswig's town hall. From 1930 he headed the district department for public health and racial welfare of the NSDAP. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Straub was re-elected to the Schleswig city council at the end of March 1933. In November 1933 Straub was appointed regional councilor by the provincial administration in Kiel and headed the welfare education.

Straub worked in the T4 central office from February 16, 1941 to March 31, 1943 , and from July 8, 1941, T4 expert . In this function, he examined patients at the clinics in Schleswig-Stadtfeld and Hesterberg several times. Straub retired in early 1944. Straub committed end of April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin suicide .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration of Erich Straub in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ A b c Matthias Schartl: A clique of "old fighters" - the rise and fall of regional NSDAP elites in the city and district of Schleswig . In: Democratic History - Yearbook on the Labor Movement and Democracy in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 15, 2003, p. 178.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : "Euthanasia" in the Nazi state . 11th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-596-24326-2 , pp. 228f.
  4. ↑ Erich Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 2606.
personal data
SURNAME Straub, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and euthanasia offender
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1945
Place of death Berlin