Ernst Buchalik

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Ernst Buchalik (born November 11, 1905 in Rybnik ; † 20th century) was a German psychiatrist who, as director of the sanatorium and nursing home praise, was involved in Nazi murders as part of " child euthanasia ".

Life

Buchalik graduated from high school in 1925 to study medicine at the universities of Munich and Breslau , which he completed in 1930 with a state examination. After his medical internship in Hindenburg , he received his doctorate in 1931 in Breslau. med. From 1931 Buchalik worked at the Tost Sanatorium.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 . He also became a member of the SA , where he held the rank of ambulance leader. He was also NSDAP district leader and employee at the Racial Political Office of the NSDAP . At the end of 1938 he was promoted to the Medical Council and in June 1940 to the Senior Medical Council.

From mid-September 1939 to mid-January 1945 he was director of the Loben sanatorium. From 1942 the murders began as part of the “child euthanasia”. The doctor Elisabeth Hecker selected the admitted children on the admission ward she directed according to their “social usefulness”. Those children who were not transferred to reformatory institutions came to Department B, headed by Buchalik , with diagnoses such as “ nonsense ” or epilepsy - the euphemistically called “ children's department ”, where at least 221 children were murdered by means of fatal luminal doses . From the dead, the brains and their findings were sent to the neurology professor Viktor von Weizsäcker in Breslau.

At the end of the Second World War , before the Red Army took Praise in mid-January 1945, he moved west and worked in refugee care. From the beginning of September 1945 he practiced as a resident neurologist in Greiz, Thuringia . According to him, he was denazified in the Soviet occupation zone at the time and was a wanted war criminal in Poland . In 1950, Buchalik took over the direction of the Greizer Cäcilienchor. In mid-May 1957 he moved to the Federal Republic and from mid-July 1957 worked as a senior doctor at the Westphalian Clinic in Marsberg .

From 1965 to 1974, the Dortmund public prosecutor's office against former doctors and nurses of the Heil- u. Nursing home Lublinitz initiated an investigation. The investigation ended in 1974.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Udo Benzenhöfer: The medical philosopher Viktor von Weizsäcker. An overview of life and work. , Göttingen 2007, p. 155
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 80
  3. ↑ Castell, R., Nedoschill, J., Rupps, M., Bussiek, D .: History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Germany from 1937 to 1961 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2003, 584 S., ISBN 3- 525-46174-7 , pp. 515f.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath-kirche-greiz.de
personal data
SURNAME Buchalik, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and Nazi euthanasia perpetrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybnik
DATE OF DEATH 20th century