Gerda Ganzer

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Gerda Ganzer , née Quernheim, (born December 15, 1907 in Oberhausen , † after 1961 ) was an inmate nurse in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

After graduating from high school, Gerda Ganzer completed a commercial apprenticeship and then trained as a nurse. After successfully completing this training, she worked as a nurse. On October 8, 1938, she was arrested by the Gestapo on the basis of statements hostile to the state . She was subsequently sentenced to one and a half years in prison and, after three months of “ protective custody ” in the Moabit police prison , transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp on November 2, 1940 . There she was used as a prisoner nurse until March 1943. Your superiors were the concentration camp doctors Gerda Weyand , Herta Oberheuser , Walter Sonntag and the on- site doctor Gerhard Schiedlausky . Ganzer is also said to have been responsible for the wound care and follow-up care for the inmate women abused for medical experiments. The doctor Rolf Rosenthal is said to have entered into a relationship with Ganzer. As a result, Rosenthal aborted her. A prisoner doctor involved in the abortion reported this incident, whereupon Rosenthal and Ganzer were arrested and imprisoned. Ganzer was placed in solitary confinement and in April 1944 was transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After the evacuation of this camp, Ganzer was transferred back to Ravensbrück and remained there until the camp was liberated on April 28, 1945.

Ganzer was charged with the mistreatment and killing of Allied prisoner women (injections) before a British military tribunal in the Fourth Ravensbrück Trial in Hamburg's “ Curiohaus ” and sentenced to death by hanging on June 4, 1948 . She was acquitted on the third count, the killing of an infant. As a result of a pardon, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on July 3, 1948. In February 1950 life imprisonment was reduced to 21 years and in September 1954 to twelve years imprisonment. Ganzer was released from prison on June 6, 1961. Nothing is known about her further life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard Boy-Brandt was a prison officer in the district and later made her statement about Ganzer. bmfsfj.de (PDF; 219 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Ganzer, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quernheim, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prisoner nurse in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH after 1961