Fridolin Karl Puhr
Fridolin Karl Puhr (born April 30, 1913 in Groß Gerungs ; † unknown) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and used as a troop doctor in the Dachau concentration camp .
biography
Puhr, a doctor of medicine, was a member of the SA from 1934 and switched to the SS in June 1937 (SS no. 295.858). After the beginning of the Second World War , Puhr volunteered for the Luftwaffe at the end of 1939, but was used in the Waffen SS from July 1940 . There he worked as a troop doctor in the SS "Totenkopf" division until December 1944. In the meantime, she was hospitalized for thirteen months due to heart problems. From December 15, 1944 to April 26, 1945, Puhr was deployed as a troop doctor near the Dachau concentration camp and was responsible for the medical care of the camp crew.
After the end of the war, Puhr was arrested and indicted on November 15, 1945 in the main Dachau trial, which took place as part of the Dachau trials , for war crimes before an American military court. On December 13, 1945 Puhr was because of "assistance and participation in the crimes committed in the Dachau concentration camp" with 35 other co-accused by the military court to death by the strand convicted. As an individual act of excess, the court considered Puhr's participation in executions in which he determined the death of the executed. The death penalty was later commuted to 20 years imprisonment. Subsequently, the prison sentence was gradually reduced and Puhr was released on April 20, 1950 from the Landsberg war crimes prison . After his release, Puhr acted as a prison doctor in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison. Puhr, recognized as a late returnee , applied in May 1954 through Dietrich Allers , the former managing director of Aktion T4 , to work as a company doctor at Deutsche Werft . Nothing is known about his further life.
literature
- Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
- Ernst Klee : The person lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5 , p. 323.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puhr, Fridolin Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and troop doctor in the Dachau concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Gerungs |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |