Hans Eisele (doctor)
Hans Kurt Eisele (born March 13, 1913 in Donaueschingen ; † May 3, 1967 in Maadi ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp doctor .
Life
The son of a church painter came from a humble background that deteriorated significantly as a result of the inflation of the twenties. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Donaueschingen , he studied medicine in Freiburg from 1931. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.125.695) as well as the SS (membership number 237.421). He was married and had three children.
Crimes in the concentration camps
Eisele joined the Waffen-SS in January 1940 and was shortly deployed to the Mauthausen concentration camp , then from February to August 1941 in the Buchenwald concentration camp . As a concentration camp doctor, he was responsible for the murder of up to 300 prisoners suffering from tuberculosis . He had also carried out experimental operations, some without anesthesia and with fatal results, and mistreated and tortured prisoners. He then worked in the Natzweiler concentration camp and in June 1942 in the SS military hospital in Prague. He also served in the SS division “Das Reich” on the Eastern Front . In February 1945 he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp to work under the first camp doctor Fritz Hintermayer , where he was arrested by American troops in April 1945.
Trials and punishment
Eisele was sentenced to death on December 13, 1945 in the main Dachau trial, which took place as part of the Dachau trials , for his participation in three executions in which, as a camp doctor, he had to issue death certificates. After converting the sentence to life imprisonment, Eisele was charged again in the Buchenwald main trial on April 11, 1947 , and received the death penalty again along with twenty-one defendants . However, the basis of the conviction against Eisele turned out to be so questionable and uncertain that four of the eight military judges filed a request that the review body convert the verdict into a ten-year prison sentence, which was upheld.
During his imprisonment in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison , he wrote an extensive defense document entitled Audiatur et altera pars , in which he denied all allegations and presented himself as a staunch Christian who only acted for the benefit of his fellow men. In contrast, there were numerous testimonies from the ranks of the former concentration camp inmates, in some cases even from former SS members. Eisele was released from prison on February 26, 1952, after further reductions in sentences.
Post-war career and flight to Egypt
After his release he opened a doctor's practice in Munich unmolested. When new accusations were made against Eisele in the course of the trial of Martin Sommer , a member of the security team at Buchenwald concentration camp, in 1958 , he fled to Egypt , where he settled under the pseudonym Carl Debouche in the elegant Cairo suburb of Maadi .
Under the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , German and Austrian, for the most part formerly National Socialist, scientists had come to the country since the mid-1950s, who were involved in the construction of fighter planes and medium-range missiles in military research institutions, which Nasser needed to expand Egyptian priority Middle East and specifically needed for the fight against Israel . Eisele also went into hiding in these circles after a German request for extradition was rejected.
In Egypt, the Mossad carried out at least one assassination attempt on Eisele; The Egyptian parcel delivery person was killed in a parcel bomb attack, but Eisele was uninjured. He died on May 3, 1967 under unknown circumstances in his house in Maadi and was buried there in the small German cemetery in grave no.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
- Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5 .
- Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)
- Robert Fisk : Butcher of Buchenwald in an Egyptian paradise. The Independent , Aug. 7, 2010.
- Andreas Eichmüller: No general amnesty: the criminal prosecution of Nazi crimes in the early Federal Republic . Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70412-9 .
- Bernd Christmann: Hanns Eisele: Biographical research on an SS doctor . Tectum, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8288-2699-1 .
- Armin Eisele and Raphael Ben Nescher (eds.): Audiatur et altera pars. The memorandum of the concentration camp doctor Hans Eisele. Tredition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3849502126 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eisele, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisele, Hanns |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concentration camp doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Donaueschingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1967 |
| Place of death | Maadi |