Friedrich Ofterdinger

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Friedrich Theodor Ofterdinger (born May 16, 1896 in Rellingen , † June 9, 1946 in Neumünster ) was a German doctor , Hamburg senator and National Socialist .

near Ypres

Life

Ofterdinger attended the reform grammar school in Altona and took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a soldier in the Lübeck infantry regiment (3rd Hanseatic table) No. 162 from Lübeck . In 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve . after leaving the army in 1919 he was a company commander in the Hamburg Free Corps Bahrenfeld . In 1920 he successfully passed his Abitur examination and studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg . In 1925 he completed his studies in Hamburg with a doctorate and, after completing a medical internship, was general practitioner in Hamburg-Groß Borstel from 1926 .

Ofterdinger joined the NSDAP at the beginning of September 1929 and was local group leader in Hamburg-Groß Borstel in 1931 and district leader (district VI) in 1933. In 1930 he co-founded the NSDÄB in Hamburg and held the post of deputy district chairman in this NS organization until the end of the Nazi regime.

For the NSDAP he was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1931 to 1933 . In the Senate elected on March 8, 1933 , Ofterdinger was originally responsible for the university area . After the Senate reshuffle on May 18, 1933, Ofterdinger became Senator for Health. But he left the Senate on September 30, 1933 when the Senate was reshuffled. Nevertheless, while retaining the title of "Senator", he was President of the Health and Welfare Authority. From this point in time until June 1945, Ofterdinger was largely responsible for health policy.

Since October 1933, the health authority has been under the Senate Department of Internal Administration under the direction of Senator Alfred Richter . With the abolition of the Hamburg constitution in April 1938, the Hamburg Senate was finally abolished - the Senate had previously been reduced to a middle authority. In the associated reorganization, Ofterdinger became a full-time alderman for the health administration in the municipal administration of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg . He held this post until June 1945. From 1942 to 1944 he was also head of the school and university department in the Hamburg state administration and was made an honorary member of the University of Hamburg on May 10, 1944.

During the Second World War , Ofterdinger was appointed General Commissioner for Healthcare in Hamburg by Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann . With this post, his existing authority to issue instructions was further expanded. As a staunch National Socialist, Ofterdinger was behind the ideas of so-called "genetic and racial hygiene ". He implemented the forced sterilization of so-called "unworthy life" at an early stage .

He was fully informed about the murders of the T4 campaign and the ambulance transports that began in 1943 and used his position in the Hamburg health service to force euthanasia .

On June 20, 1945, Ofterdinger was removed from office by the military administration of the British Zone of Occupation and interned in Neumünster -Gadeland . Ofterdinger died in 1946 as a result of starvation edema while imprisoned in the Neumünster-Gadeland internment camp .

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  1. ↑ Herbert Diercks : "Euthanasia". The murders of people with disabilities and mental illnesses in Hamburg under National Socialism . Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2014, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Ofterdinger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ofterdinger, Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, Hamburg senator and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rellingen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1946
Place of death Neumunster