Franz von Bodmann

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Franz Hermann Johann Maria Freiherr von Bodmann , also written Bodman (born March 23, 1908 in Zwiefaltendorf , Riedlingen , †  May 25, 1945 in Markt Pongau ) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and camp doctor in several concentration camps .

Life

Franz von Bodmann completed a degree in medicine and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He was a member of the Stahlhelm and joined the SA in the early 1930s .

At the beginning of May 1932 Bodmann joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.098.482) and in 1934 the SS (SS number 267.787). From the beginning of October 1939 to the end of June 1940 and from the beginning of July 1941 to the end of January 1942 Bodmann worked as a medic with the 79th SS Standard in Ulm in the 2nd Battalion. In the SS Bodmann rose to SS-Obersturmführer until 1941 . From 1941 Bodmann, married and father of three children, had an affair with the guard Luise Danz .

From the beginning of February 1942 Bodmann was a camp doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp . From May 1942 to mid-August 1942 he worked as an on- site doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Bodmann, who, according to Klee, was the inventor of killing prisoners by means of phenol injections , also personally killed prisoners in Auschwitz by injecting phenol into the veins and later continued to practice this in other camps. From autumn 1942 he worked for a few months as an on-site doctor in the Neuengamme concentration camp , where he was jointly responsible for the gassing of Soviet prisoners of war. Then he was also employed as a medical officer in the Majdanek concentration camp until April 10, 1943 . After that he was still a senior doctor in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and from mid-September 1943 in the Vaivara concentration camp . He became a doctor for all concentration camps in occupied Estonia .

From mid-September 1944 Bodmann worked in the SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-WVHA) in the office group D, that is the inspection of the concentration camps , and from there in mid-October 1944 he moved to the main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . Bodmann was most recently deployed as a troop doctor in the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" .

Franz von Bodmann committed after the end of World War II on May 25, 1945 in a military hospital for prisoners of war in the market Pongau suicide .

literature

  • 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 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1
  • Gisela Bock : Genocide and Gender. Jewish women in the National Socialist camp system , Campus Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3593377306
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
  • Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 8: Riga, Warsaw, Vaivara, Kaunas, Płaszów, Kulmhof / Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1 (Bodmann in Vaivara, passim).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 286.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 57f.
  3. ↑ Gisela Bock: Genocide and Gender. Jewish women in the National Socialist camp system , 2005, pp. 68f.
  4. ↑ see Iyes Ternon, Socrate Helman: Histoire de la médecine SS, ou le mythe du racisme biologique . Casterman, Paris 1969, p. 212. Incorrect spelling of the first name as Max
  5. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt 1997, p. 410
    Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt 1980, pp. 390f.
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , pp. 54f.
  7. ↑ UYEs Ternon, Socrate Helman: Histoire de la médecine SS, ou le mythe du racisme biologique . Casterman, Paris 1969, having regard to a dissertation by Mark Dworczecki, Histoire des camps nazis en Estonie. Tel Aviv 1967; later, 1970, ibid. also in Hebrew
personal data
SURNAME Bodmann, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodmann, Franz Hermann Johann Maria Freiherr von; Bodman, Franz von; Bodemann, Franz von; Bottmann, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, on-site doctor in Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiefaltendorf
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1945
Place of death Pongau market