Erwin Giesing

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Erwin Giesing (born December 7, 1907 in Oberhausen ; † May 22, 1977 in Krefeld ) was a German ENT doctor and attending physician to Adolf Hitler .

Life

After graduating from high school , Giesing studied medicine at the universities of Marburg , Düsseldorf and Cologne from 1926 onwards . After graduating in 1932, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital and, after completing his specialist training as an ENT doctor in 1936, worked as a specialist at this clinic until 1939.

Giesing had already joined the NSDAP before power was handed over to the National Socialists in early August 1932 . He was also a member of the SA , in which he reached the rank of SA storm leader. After the beginning of the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht and worked at several hospitals, from 1940 as senior physician in the reserve. Most recently he was a senior officer in the Air Force .

After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was called to the " Führer Headquarters Wolfsschanze " to treat Adolf Hitler's ear injuries . After Giesing's first meeting with Hitler, Hitler gave him "the impression of an aged, worn-out and exhausted man". After Hitler's attending physicians Karl Brandt and Hanskarl von Hasselbach had criticized the treatment practices of his personal physician Theo Morell , Giesing, as the initiator of the medical dispute, was dismissed as an attending physician alongside Brandt and Hasselbach in early October 1944.

After the end of the war he was interned in the United States and was questioned several times about Hitler's illnesses. On June 12, 1945, he submitted a “Report on my treatment with Hitler” to the American Military Field Intelligence Unit and in November 1945 another corresponding treatise. In March 1947 he was released from internment. He then moved to his family in Krefeld, where he established himself as an ENT doctor. He later gave historical revisionist authors such as David Irving and Werner Maser, as well as information on Hitler's illnesses on television, which contemporary witnesses and historians, however, categorized as not very credible.

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  1. ↑ Traudl Junge: Until the last hour. Hitler's secretary tells her life. Düsseldorf 2001, p. 226.
  2. ^ A b Anton Joachimsthaler: Hitler's end. Legends and documents. Augsbg. 2000, p. 482.
  3. ↑ Werner Maser , Heinz Höhne : Adolf Hitler: Aufriß über mein Person. In: Der Spiegel , edition 24/1973 of June 11, 1973, p. 104.
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Neumann , Henrik Eberle : Was Hitler sick? - A final finding. Bergisch Gladbach 2009, p. 77ff.
personal data
SURNAME Giesing, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and accompanying physician to Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1977
Place of death Krefeld