Ferdinand Schoen

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Ferdinand Schoen (born January 15, 1906 in Colmar ; † 1984 ) was a German forensic doctor , university lecturer and Nazi functionary.

Life

After passing high school , Schoen completed a medical degree , which he completed in 1931 with a state examination. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen with the dissertation published in 1932 "On forced movements of the lid and lower jaw muscles after encephalitis epidemica". med. PhD .

Even before power was handed over to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 989.903) and SS (SS number 166.832) in 1932. He completed his specialist training as a neurologist and psychiatrist a. a. at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Göttingen, headed by Gottfried Ewald , where he biologically recorded patients as part of the forced sterilization .

From November 1934 to June 1935 he completed further training at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics and then in October 1935 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry . From 1935 to 1938 he was the deputy of the Gaudozentenbundführer Hannover-Braunschweig. Furthermore, he was in 1937/38 at the Office for Population Policy and Hereditary Health and leader in the SS Race and Settlement Main Office . From 1938 he worked at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Göttingen and from the beginning of December 1938 at the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Vienna . He also took on other functions as a consultant for hereditary health issues at the Vienna Gauleitung and as an expert at the clan office.

He completed his habilitation in 1942 with a paper on “The forensic significance of the impaired consciousness associated with loss of memory or memory delusions” at the University of Vienna. During the Second World War he was a medical officer in the Air Force . In autumn 1943 he became Philipp Schneider's deputy as director of the Central Criminal Medical Institute of the Security Police in Vienna. If the KMI had been set up in Berlin, Schoen would have been the director of the institute.

Schoen carried out psychiatric examinations on the serial killer Bruno Lüdke , who had been transferred to the KMI in Vienna . a. an odor test and an occipital and lumbar puncture to examine the liquor alcohol level after Lüdke had to drink 100 grams of pure alcohol.

After the end of the Second World War , Schoen was dismissed from the institute's service in 1945, took up his residence in Karlsruhe and was denazified as part of a panel proceedings in 1946/47 . He was active as a lecturer in forensic medicine.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 555
  2. ↑ Year of death after Ingrid Arias: The Viennese Forensic Medicine in the Service of National Socialist Biopolitics - Project Report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 5.
  3. ^ A b c Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 475.
  4. ↑ a b Excerpt from the seniority list of the SS
  5. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 555.
  6. ^ Ingrid Arias: The Vienna Forensic Medicine in the Service of National Socialist Biopolitics - Project Report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 5.
  7. ^ Ingrid Arias: The Viennese forensic medicine in the service of National Socialist biopolitics - project report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 11.
  8. ^ Ingrid Arias: The Vienna Forensic Medicine in the Service of National Socialist Biopolitics - Project Report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 14f.
  9. ↑ Ingrid Arias: The Vienna Forensic Medicine in the Service of National Socialist Biopolitics - Project Report (PDF; 850 kB), p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH 1984