Ernst stapler

Ernst Hefter (born January 11, 1906 in Minden ; † April 11, 1947 in Bautzen ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved in euthanasia crimes during the National Socialist era .

Life

Hefter was the son of a colonel . After finishing his schooling, he completed his medical degree and his doctorate at the University of Hamburg with the 1932 published dissertation About usual and unusual warts eruptions to Dr. med. From November 1932 he was initially employed as a volunteer at the Charité Psychiatric and Mental Clinic , where he was an unscheduled assistant from the beginning of November 1934 to the end of January 1937. Hefter then worked as a research assistant at the main health office in Berlin.

Hefter, a friend of the Reichsärzteführer Leonardo Conti , became senior physician at the Wittenau sanatoriums in early February 1939 . From November 17, 1939, he was involved as a T4 expert in the selection of sick and handicapped people for the T4 campaign. He joined the NSDAP in early February 1940 and was a judge at the Hereditary Health Court . From July 1941 until the end of the Second World War he headed the “ children's department ” in the mental hospital for children in Berlin Reinickendorf . “Children's department” was the cover word for “murder department” in the context of child euthanasia .

After the war ended, Hefter was arrested and imprisoned by the Soviets. Due to the death of 30 children for which he was responsible, as well as his reports on forced sterilization , Hefter was sentenced to ten years in prison by a Soviet military tribunal (SMT) in August 1946 . As an SMT convict , Hefter was a prisoner in the Torgau special camp (Fort Zinna) and died on April 11, 1947 in the Bautzen correctional facility .

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Hefter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 236f.
↑ UAHU. University Neurological Clinic No. 12; LAB. A Rep. 356 No. 45542, sheet 81; Martina Krüger: “Children's department Wiesengrund. The killing of disabled children in Wittenau ”, in: Working group to research the history of the Karl Bonhoeffer Nervenklinik (ed.): Totgeschwiegen 1933–1945. On the history of the Wittenauer Heilstätten; since 1957 Karl Bonhoeffer Psychiatric Clinic . 2nd expanded edition. Berlin 1989, pp. 151-176.
^ Frank Hirschberger: The prosecution of Nazi euthanasia crimes in the SBZ / GDR . In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly medicine in National Socialism: from racial hygiene to mass murder . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2008, ISBN 3412232068 , p. 234.

personal data
SURNAME	Stapler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist and euthanasia offender
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minden
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 1947
Place of death	Bautzen

[Klee236f-1] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 236f.

[2] UAHU. University Neurological Clinic No. 12; LAB. A Rep. 356 No. 45542, sheet 81; Martina Krüger: “Children's department Wiesengrund. The killing of disabled children in Wittenau ”, in: Working group to research the history of the Karl Bonhoeffer Nervenklinik (ed.): Totgeschwiegen 1933–1945. On the history of the Wittenauer Heilstätten; since 1957 Karl Bonhoeffer Psychiatric Clinic . 2nd expanded edition. Berlin 1989, pp. 151-176.

[3] Frank Hirschberger: The prosecution of Nazi euthanasia crimes in the SBZ / GDR . In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly medicine in National Socialism: from racial hygiene to mass murder . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2008, ISBN 3412232068 , p. 234.