Fritz Cropp

This article is about the doctor Fritz Cropp. For other people see Friedrich Cropp .

Fritz Cropp (born October 25, 1887 in Oldenburg , † April 6, 1984 in Bremen ) was a German doctor and Nazi official.

Life

The son of a factory owner studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg , where he became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . After the First World War , he settled in Delmenhorst as a city doctor in 1920 . A year earlier, Cropp had joined the DNVP and in 1923 the Pan-German Association . In 1931 he joined the NSDAP and the SA (Sanitätsoberführer; 1939). He was also a member of the Nazi Medical Association . For the NSDAP, Cropp appeared as a Gauredner . Since 1932 he sat for the party in the Oldenburg state parliament .

In 1933 Fritz Cropp was appointed State Medical Councilor in Oldenburg. Two years later, in 1935, he was transferred to Berlin , where he worked as a ministerial advisor in Department IV (health and public care) in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . From 1939 he was ministerial conductor . From 1940 Fritz Cropp was heavily involved in the National Socialist "euthanasia", the so-called Action T4 . As the superior of Herbert Linden , one of the main organizers of the T4 campaign, he was responsible for hospital transfers. From 1943 until the end of the war he held the function of general consultant for air war damage.

After internment in Neuengamme , he established himself as a general practitioner in Delmenhorst . After a judgment by the state denazification committee in Oldenburg, which classified him as "politically unsustainable", he was no longer allowed to be politically active. From 1949 Cropp was an advisor to the Central Committee West of the Inner Mission in Bethel . He retired in 1952 and retired as a former ministerial official.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Parliamentarians of Lower Saxony, 1919–1945. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 2004, p. 76.
• Ernst Klee : Fritz Cropp, entry in ders .: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Updated edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 98.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 99, p. 820.