Hans Fleischhacker (anthropologist)

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Hans Fleischhacker (born March 10, 1912 in Töttleben , † January 30, 1992 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German anthropologist and SS-Obersturmführer . He was charged with measuring the skulls of concentration camp inmates in World War II and was acquitted in 1971 and continued to work as a scientist at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Until 1945

After studying in Jena from 1931 to 1933 and joining the Germania fraternity there , Fleischhacker received his doctorate in Munich in 1935 and was then assistant to Theodor Mollison . From 1937 he worked as an assistant at the Racial Biology Institute at the University of Tübingen , which was subordinate to the Racial Political Office of the NSDAP , where he qualified as a professor in 1943 in anthropology. In 1937 he joined the SS (membership number 307.399), in 1940 the NSDAP (membership number 7.501.920) and the Waffen SS . A year later he became SS leader in the SS Race and Settlement Main Office and aptitude test for the Germanization of Poland, as such he was mainly deployed in the occupied Litzmannstadt (Lodz) , where he temporarily headed the branch of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. On June 10, 1943, he traveled to Berlin and one day later to Auschwitz-Birkenau , where he and Bruno Beger were to measure camp inmates for August Hirt . The surveyed people were in the Natzweiler-Struthof (Alsace) deported and murdered in August 1943rd The corpses were brought by SS men to the anatomical institute of the University of Strasbourg in occupied Alsace , headed by Hirt, and kept in the Strasbourg skull collection.

From 1945

On October 25, 1945, Fleischhacker was dismissed from the service of the University of Tübingen "with immediate effect" by the French military government and found a job at the Ministry of the Interior for Württemberg-Hohenzollern . In 1948 he was classified as a follower in a panel proceedings . From 1950 he worked as an expert for paternity reports for the German Society for Anthropology and as an assistant at the Institute for Hereditary Science at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From January 1960 to October 1961, Fleischhacker worked again as an assistant at the Anthropological Institute at the University of Tübingen.

Trial and acquittal in 1971, continued work at the university

Fleischhacker was charged with participating in the measurements of 86 Jewish women and men in Auschwitz in 1943 and therefore lost his position as a private lecturer at Frankfurt University. He claimed that he did not know about the consequences of his anthropological measurements in Auschwitz. Like Bruno Beger , he was able to convince the judges that they assumed that their measurements were only used to compare scientific methods with one another, since they came from different schools and in the " Sonderkommando K " they were working together as anthropologists. On March 5, 1971, Fleischhacker was acquitted by the Frankfurt Regional Court; he later worked as a professor at the University of Frankfurt.

effect

In an exhibition of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT in Hohentübingen Castle with the title “In Fleischhacker's hands. Tübingen Racial Researcher in Łódź 1940–1942 ”, documents on Hans Fleischhacker's criminal research were published for the first time in 2015, which could have been found in the institute's collection as early as 1989 on the occasion of a lecture series on the topic of university and National Socialism.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 155.
  • Hans-Joachim Lang : The names of the numbers. How it was possible to identify the 86 victims of a Nazi crime . Hamburg 2004; Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • In butcher's hands. Science, Politics, and the 20th Century. Edited by Jens Kolata, Richard Kühl, Henning Tümmers, Urban Wiesing . MUT, Tübingen 2015 (Writings from the Museum of the University of Tübingen, Volume 8), ISBN 978-3-9816616-4-4 .
  • Madeleine Wegner: Hans Fleischhacker: A "race expert" in Auschwitz concentration camp. In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators helpers free riders. Nazi-polluted from Baden-Württemberg , Volume 9: Nazi-polluted from the south of today's Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2018, pp. 92-106, ISBN 978-3-945893-10-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lena Müssigmann: Hands from the Holocaust. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 30, 2015, p. 23.
  2. ↑ a b Entry Hans Fleischhacker (1912-1992) ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at The names of the numbers. An initiative to commemorate 86 Jewish victims of a crime by Nazi scientists @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-namen-der-zahlen.de
  3. ↑ Denazification files by Hans Fleischhacker as digital reproduction in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives , accessed on December 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Horst Junginger : From the philological to the völkisch religious studies , pp. 281–282.
  5. ↑ Measure for measure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1970 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Michael Petersen, University of Tübingen. Research for annihilation. At his desk in Tübingen, the anthropologist Hans Fleischhacker examined the handprints of 309 Jews - all of whom had been murdered in the ghetto , Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 24, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Fleischhacker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Killing life
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1992
Place of death Frankfurt am Main