Friedrich Karl Dermietzel

Friedrich Karl "Fritz" Dermietzel (born February 7, 1899 in Lunow , Brandenburg , † July 7, 1981 in Cologne ) was a German ENT doctor and SS officer.

Life

Dermietzel was the son of the landowner and politician Friedrich Dermietzel . He attended elementary school and passed his Abitur at a grammar school. During the First World War , on June 18, 1915, he volunteered in the replacement engineer battalion No. 1 of the Prussian Army . On January 26, 1916, he was transferred to the pioneer battalion "Fürst Radziwill" (East Prussian) No. 1 at the front, was wounded several times and on December 31, 1916 was promoted to lieutenant . Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , Dermietzel retired from military service after the end of the war in September 1919.

He started at the University of Königsberg to study medicine and in 1918 the Corps Littuania recipiert . When he was inactive , he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . At the beginning of 1931 he obtained his license to practice medicine . He then worked as an assistant doctor at various hospitals . From the end of 1931 he ran a doctor's practice for ear, nose and throat medicine in Berlin . Adolf Hitler is said to have visited him several times because of his hoarseness. On May 1, 1932, Dermietzel joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( membership number 1.106.473) and on June 25, 1932 the general Schutzstaffel (SS number 31.115), three years later the Waffen SS . From 1935 he was adjutant to Ernst-Robert Grawitz , whom he had known from around 1934 from his position at the Berlin-Westend municipal hospital . In 1935/36 he was head of the outpatient department at the Charite . In April 1936 he became the leader of the medical departments of the SS-Totenkopfverband (SS-TV), whereby he was also responsible for the SS guards of the concentration camps , and from August onwards he was also the commander of the medical departments of the SS emergency force in Berlin.

From February 1937, Oskar Hock was his deputy. Detained in 1938, he complained about Dermietzel in a letter to Heinrich Himmler . Dermietzel responded with a letter to the head of the SS Personnel Chancellery and was later defended by Grawitz. Hock was reassigned, later released from the SS, and reinstated in the SS. On February 1, 1937, he handed over the management of the medical departments of the SS Death's Head Associations to Karl Genzken .

In 1938 he joined the staff of the SS main office at his own request. He became the head of the SS medical department. Despite his appointment as representative of the Reichsarzt SS Grawitz at the end of 1938, disputes between the two ensued again and again, so that at the end of 1940, when his friendship with Grawitz was terminated, he was sent to the front and thus "sidelined". He first served on the staff of the SS division Das Reich as a division doctor. On April 20, 1942, when he was detached from his previous post, he was given the rank of SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen SS. From July 1942 to October 1944 he was a corps doctor in the II SS Panzer Corps and later as an army doctor in the 6th SS Panzer Army .

In his function as head of the SS medical office, Dermietzel was a seconded member of the Friends of the Reichsführer SS from 1939 .

Dermietzel was a board member of Lebensborn e. V, since from mid-1938 all Lebensborn doctors were transferred to the medical department of which he was the head.

He was not legally prosecuted for his actions after the war.

After the war he practiced from 1950 as an ear, nose and throat doctor first in Gailenkirchen , then from 1956 to 1975 in Cologne . He died of a stroke . Dermietzel was married twice and had children.

See also

• List of SS brigade leaders

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 .
• Reinhard Vogelsang: The Himmler Circle of Friends. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-7881-1666-8 .
• Marco Pukrop: SS medics between camp duty and front duty . Dissertation , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover , 2015, p. 596 ff.
• Nikolaus von Preradovich : The generals of the Waffen SS . Vowinckel-Verlag , 1985, p. 130 ff.
• Veit Scherzer : Himmler's military elite. The highly decorated members of the Waffen SS. An evaluation based on the files of the Federal Archives and the National Archives of the USA. Volume 1: A-Ka. Verlag Veit Scherzer, Bayreuth 2014, ISBN 978-3-938845-26-4 , p. 209.

Web links

• Demietzel in an organizational chart of the administration of Lebensborn eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Pukrop: SS medic between camp duty and front duty. The staffing of the medical department in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945. Hanover 2015, p. 597 , doi : 10.15488 / 8553 (dissertation University of Hanover).
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 86/774.
3. ↑ Harald Sandner: Hitler - Das Itinerar: whereabouts and journeys from 1889 to 1945 - Volume II: 1928-1933 . Berlin Story Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95723-707-1 , pp. various pages ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Henrik Eberle, Hans-Joachim Neumann: Was Hitler sick ?: A final finding . BASTEI LÜBBE, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8387-0503-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ Volker Elis Pilgrim: Hitler 1 and Hitler 2: Fuehrer's military secrets . Osburg Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95510-175-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
6. ^ Mathias Schmidt, Dominik Gross, Jens Westemeier: The doctors of the Nazi leaders: careers and networks . LIT Verlag Münster, 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-13689-3 , pp. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ Karl Einhäupl, Detlev Ganten, Jakob Hein: 300 years of Charité - as reflected in their institutes . De Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-020256-4 , p. 125 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
8. ^ Mathias Schmidt, Dominik Gross, Jens Westemeier: The doctors of the Nazi leaders: careers and networks . LIT Verlag Münster, 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-13689-3 , pp. 18 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
9. ^ Judith Hahn: Grawitz, Genzken, Gebhardt: three careers in the medical service of the SS . Klemm & Oelschläger, 2007, ISBN 978-3-932577-56-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
10. ^ The archive: reference work for politics, economy, culture . O. Stollberg, 1942, p. 58 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
11. ^ Kurt Mehner: The Waffen-SS and Police, 1939-1945: Leadership and Troop . Militair-Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 1995, p. 110 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Kiekenap: SS Junker School: SA and SS in Braunschweig . Appelhans, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-94-1 , pp. 247 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
13. ^ Leo Stern: The German Imperialism and the Second World War: Contributions to the subject of domestic politics and the occupation movement in Germany and the occupied territories . Rütten & Loenig, 1961, p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
14. ↑ Reinhard Vogelsang: The Himmler Circle of Friends . Musterschmidt, 1972, ISBN 978-3-7881-1666-8 , pp. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
15. ↑ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Oetkers: Business and secrets about Germany's most famous economic dynasty . Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Verlag), 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-61594-0 , p. 144 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
16. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims . S. Fischer, 1997, ISBN 978-3-10-039306-7 , pp. 202 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
17. ↑ ^{a b} Judith Hahn: Grawitz, Genzken, Gebhardt: three careers in the medical service of the SS . Klemm & Oelschläger, 2007, ISBN 978-3-932577-56-7 , p. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).