Erwin von Helmersen

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Erwin von Helmersen in Allied internment. The sticky sheet photo was taken between 1945 and 1947.

Erwin Joseph August von Helmersen (born November 4, 1914 in Bremen , †  April 12, 1949 in Krakow ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer (1944) and was employed as a camp doctor in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .

Life

Erwin von Helmersen was a member of the noble family of Helmersen . After completing his school career, he studied medicine at the University of Bonn in the 1930s . In 1933 he joined the SA and in 1937 the NSDAP ( membership number 4,194,453). In the National Socialist Student Union he was an employee in the Office for Political Education and subsequently became its director. His compulsory military service, which preceded the military service, he probably performed in the Reich Labor Service from the mid-1930s . He joined the SS (SS No. 372.240) in 1940. After the outbreak of World War II , he was employed as a doctor in the 301st Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Medical Battalion in Berlin. From December 1942 he worked in the SS-Lazarett Berlin-Lichterfelde and was a doctoral student with Fritz Lenz at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A) in Berlin-Dahlem . With the dissertation : The Descendants of an Armenian Family in a German Settlement Village in Bukowina , Helmersen received his doctorate in August 1943 . From August 1943 to October 1944 von Helmersen was employed as a camp doctor in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he worked, among other things, in the “ gypsy camp ”. Helmersen to Auschwitz-Birkenau on selections of sick prisoners for the gas chamber and the sterilization experiments by Carl Clauberg participated. After October 1944 he was employed with the SS Parachute Battalion 500 and the SS hospital in Prague.

After the end of the war , von Helmersen was interned in the United States. On October 14, 1947, he was transferred to Poland . By the District Court in Krakow, he was on 17 January 1949 sentenced to death and on April 12, 1949 executed .

literature

  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods. Part: Livonia. Bd II. Görlitz: Verlag EU Starke, 1929. S. 834.
  2. ↑ Booklets of Auschwitz, Issue 15, State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau , 1975, p. 65
personal data
SURNAME Helmersen, Erwin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1949
Place of death Krakow