Hans Battista

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Hans Battista (born March 13, 1915 in Vienna ; † September 25, 1995 ibid) was an Austrian medic and SS leader.

Life

Battista holds a degree in medicine and a doctorate in 1939 at the University of Vienna Dr. med.

During his school and training days he became a member of the Hitler Youth (HJ) in 1932 and a year later of the NS Student Union (NSDStB). He also joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1934 and moved from there to the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the same year . The NSDAP he joined as part of the port of Austria at the 1938th

After the beginning of the Second World War , he worked from April 1940 as a consultant in the genetic and racial care department in the main health office of the municipal administration of the Reichsgau Vienna . In March 1941 he was drafted into the Waffen SS and, after the attack on the Soviet Union, was employed as an SS doctor on the staff of Einsatzgruppe B , which was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 people. In September 1941 he attended the attempted murder of the mentally ill in Mogilew using car exhaust fumes .

At the end of 1943 he was transferred from Einsatzgruppe B to the Central Criminal Medicine Institute of the Security Police in Vienna. Battista, who rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1944, was a holder of the golden Hitler Youth badge and the War Merit Cross, 2nd class.

After the end of the war, Battista was a prisoner of war. Battista later worked as a doctor and authorized signatory for the Austrian company EBEWE Pharma .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III, Vienna 2005, p. 51
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Battista, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1995
Place of death Vienna