Gerhard Neubert

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Gerhard Neubert (born June 12, 1909 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † December 5, 1993 in Diepholz ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and was employed as a medical officer in the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp .

Life

Gerhard Neubert was the son of a lawyer. After graduating from elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a piano maker, which he successfully completed in 1927. He then moved to Diepholz in Lower Saxony and held a managerial position in a furniture store. Neubert was drafted into the Waffen SS in 1940 and completed basic military training with the SS regiment "Ostmark" in Prague . He was then stationed with his unit in the occupied Netherlands for a year and then served on the Eastern Front . After a home leave in the summer of 1942 , Neubert no longer met his unit at the collection site in Krakow and was then transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp . At first he was on duty with the guards in Auschwitz and was used to operate the disinfection system and the steam boiler. Here he completed courses in the field of nursing and disinfection . From January 1943 to January 1945 he served as a medical officer (SDG) in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp , initially under the camp doctor Horst Fischer and from autumn 1944 under his successor Hans Wilhelm König . In this function, Neubert was responsible for both the preliminary selection, to be confirmed by the respective SS camp doctor, as well as the final selection of prisoners in the prisoner infirmary , which was headed by camp elder Stefan Budziaszek from June 1943 . The selected prisoners were then murdered in the main camp or in Auschwitz-Birkenau by means of phenol injections or in the gas chambers :

“So often prisoners tried to save acquaintances from extermination. Robert Waitz reports how a person suffering from chronic kidney inflammation was swindled out of a transport destined for gassing after the medical officer von Monowitz, Neubert, was bribed with 100 dollars. Jan Trajster remembers a similar incident: A Jew named Zawadzki who was deported from France was struck off the gassing list by Neubert for 50 dollars and a liter of schnapps. "

In September 1943 Neubert was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords; as a member of the concentration camp staff, possibly for participating in killings.

After the evacuation of the Auschwitz camp, Neubert was employed in this function in the Buchenwald , Mittelbau and Neuengamme concentration camps until the end of the war .

After the end of the war, he was captured by the British in Schleswig-Holstein and was released from internment after only ten weeks. He then worked in Diepholz as an agricultural assistant, carpenter and bricklayer foreman. Between October 1958 and the end of 1963 he was employed by the Bundeswehr site administration in Diepholz and then returned to his managerial position in the furniture factory, which he held before the war.

As part of the investigations into the first Auschwitz trial , Neubert was also targeted by the investigators. However, Neubert did not have to enter pretrial detention and left on July 17, 1964 due to a kidney disease in the course of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. In the second Auschwitz trial (trial "4 Ks 3/63 against Burger u. A.") Before the district court in Frankfurt am Main, which began on December 14, 1965 and ended on September 16, 1966, he stood on trial with two other defendants. Neubert, who in 1966 since the beginning of pre-trial detention was sitting, was from the Frankfurt District Court for aid to Community murder in 35 cases, three and a half years prison sentenced. In the judgment it was noted that he had made “final decisions” in selections. The prisoners who were singled out by him were not even introduced to the camp doctor ”. The “compassionate attitude” towards prisoners witnessed by some Auschwitz survivors helped to mitigate the punishment.

After his parole from prison in late January 1971, he lived a normal life and died in December 1993.

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  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 297
  2. ↑ Cf. Antoni Makowski: Organization, development and activity of the prisoner infirmary in Monowitz (KL Auschwitz III) , in: Hefte von Auschwitz 15 (1975), Auschwitz, Verlag Staatliches Auschwitz-Museum 1975, pp. 113–181.
  3. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, 1980, p. 139
  4. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 297
  5. ↑ Bernd C. Wagner: IG Auschwitz. Forced labor and extermination of prisoners from the Monowitz camp 1941–1945. , Munich 2000, p. 320
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS sergeant and medical officer in Auschwitz-Monowitz
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Johanngeorgenstadt , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1993
Place of death Diepholz