Friedrich Entress

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Friedrich Karl Herrmann Entress (born December 8, 1914 in Posen ; † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg am Lech ( executed )) was a German-Polish camp doctor in various concentration and extermination camps , a war criminal.

Camp doctor in concentration and extermination camps

Entress was the son of an employee of the Poznan University Library. He became a Polish citizen after the First World War . He completed his medical studies in June 1939 with the medical state examination. After the beginning of the Second World War , he joined the Poznan self-defense in October 1939 . From November 1939 he was a member of the Waffen SS (membership number 352.124).

His service as a camp doctor began on January 3, 1941 in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . Entress worked there as the first camp doctor until December 10, 1941. Because of "special tasks important to the war effort", which means nothing other than executions , he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords .

From December 1941 to February 1943 Entress was a camp doctor in Auschwitz I , and from March to October 1943 in this position in Auschwitz III Monowitz . In Auschwitz, Entress, together with Hellmuth Vetter and Eduard Wirths, tested the tolerability and effectiveness of new pharmaceutical preparations on prisoners on behalf of the IG Farben group . In many cases, the detainees were infected with diseases for the examinations. Entress probably received an order from Enno Lolling in May 1942 to kill the incurably mentally ill, incurably tuberculous and permanently incapacitated by injections. From autumn 1942 onwards, sick prisoners were also killed who did not get well again within four weeks.

Entress was in 1942 due to a regulation on the preferred treatment of persons from the so-called Eastern territories without proof of dissertation Dr. med. PhD . In the Waffen-SS he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1943 , his highest SS rank.

October 21, 1943 to July 25, 1944 Entress was chief medical officer at the Mauthausen concentration camp . At the beginning of August 1944, Entress returned to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp, where he was again the first camp doctor. From January 1945 until the end of the war he served as a division doctor of the 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" at the front.

Trial and sentencing

In 1946 Entress was tried in the main Mauthausen trial , one of the Dachau trials , before an American military court. In the course of his work as a camp doctor in the Mauthausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1944, Entress was accused of having been responsible for the selection of sick camp inmates for gassing together with the on-site doctor Waldemar Wolter . On April 14, 1947, Entress issued an affidavit (Document No. 2368, Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes) about the selections of the prisoners after their arrival in Auschwitz, about the facilities for gassing the prisoners and the killing by means of injections .

Entress appealed to an emergency and did not appear as a witness on his own behalf. On May 13, 1946, Entress was found guilty and sentenced to death along with 57 co-defendants . After rejection of a clemency his wife he was on 28 May 1947 war crimes Landsberg prison hanged .

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  1. ^ A b Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz , Frankfurt am Main, 1980, p. 377
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, p. 108f.
personal data
SURNAME Entress, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Entress, Friedrich Karl Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Landsberg am Lech