Georg Franz Meyer

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Georg Franz Meyer (born September 5, 1917 in Vienna , † after 1981) was an Austrian concentration camp doctor and SS-Obersturmführer .

Life

Meyer became a Dr. med. PhD . He joined the General SS in May 1938. During the Second World War he was a member of the Waffen SS from March 1941 and was initially employed as a troop doctor for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and then at the SS headquarters in Vienna. From February 1942 he belonged to the 3rd medical company in Oranienburg and then to the SS Battalion East in Breslau .

On July 17, 1942, he was posted to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was a troop and camp doctor for four months. According to a post-war testimony by the doctor Johann Paul Kremer, who was also employed in Auschwitz , Meyer was a camp doctor “during the gassings”. The Auschwitz survivor Margita Schwalbova, at the time a Slovak prisoner doctor in Auschwitz, blames Meyer for the selection of female prisoners with typhus into the gas chamber . After his assignment in Auschwitz, he was also briefly deployed to the concentration camps of Stutthof , Groß-Rosen , Flossenbürg , Natzweiler-Struthof and Herzogenbusch .

In the post-war period he headed the ultrasound research station at the Lainz Hospital and practiced as a general practitioner in Vienna from 1949 until he retired in 1981.

Before the start of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, Meyer was questioned as part of the investigation into the relevant crime complex. Confronted with the diary entry of September 17, 1942 by his concentration camp colleague Kremer: “Today with Dr. Meyer visits the women's camp in Birkenau ”, he denied knowledge of this women's camp and also stated in the course of the interrogations that“ in Auschwitz [...] he had nothing to do with the concentration camp ”. In the course of these preliminary inquiries, the Auschwitz survivor Hermann Langbein reported Meyer to the Vienna Public Prosecutor in March 1960 on suspicion of complicity in mass murder. The investigation against Meyer lasted more than ten years until Simon Wiesenthal turned to the international press in 1970. It was only at this point in time that the Austrian Ministry of Justice announced that the public prosecutor would submit its final application in a few months. Finally, the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office established “certain suspicious factors”, which, however, would not be sufficient to raise a murder charge: despite having performed ramp duty, participation in selections could not be proven, other possible criminal offenses were statute-barred. The case is closed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books. Volume 1: Reports. 1995, p. 290
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 277
  3. ^ Hans Weiss, Krista Federspiel: Who - a negative who's who of Austria. Vienna 1988, p. 121
  4. ^ Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Johannes Laimighofer, Siegfried Sanwald: Auschwitz perpetrators and the Austrian post-war justice system . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Täter. Austrian Actors in National Socialism (= yearbook 2014). Vienna 2014, p. 26 f.
  5. ^ Marion Wisinger: Proceedings discontinued. How the Austrian judiciary dealt with violent Nazi criminals in the 1960s and 1970s. In: Walter Schuster, Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Denazification in regional comparison: the attempt to take stock (= historical yearbook of the city of Linz 2002 ). Archive of the City of Linz , Linz 2004, ISBN 3-900388-55-5 , p. 647.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Georg Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concentration camp doctor and SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1981