Hans Henning Atrott

Hans Henning Atrott, 2011

Hans Henning Atrott (born January 12, 1944 in Memel ) is the founder, former federal manager and first president of the German Society for Human Dying (DGHS) as well as the former managing director of the "World Federation of Right-to-die-Societies". He became known through a discussion he sparked on killing on demand and assisted suicide as well as through the mediation and sale of potassium cyanide to those willing to die, which led to his conviction.

Life

Hans Henning Atrott is the son of Wilhelm Atrott, the Protestant pastor of the St. James parish in Memel in East Prussia , and his wife, the lawyer Edith Atrott. His parents died in the first year of his life. He grew up in the GDR and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956 . There he graduated from high school in 1969 . He completed a degree in philosophy, political science and sociology (with a focus on medical sociology) at the University of Munich and the Munich University of Politics with the academic degree Dipl. Sc. Pol. from.

Atrott lives in Augsburg , has been married to Anita Atrott, b. Zwiefler, and father of Jörg-Ulrich Atrott.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide

From 1979 to 1981 Atrott acted as state chairman of the Federation for Freedom of the Mind in Bavaria, in 1980 he became the founder and president of the German Society for Human Dying and from 1982 to 1984 he worked as managing director of the World Federation of Right-to-die-Societies . In 1983 he became Federal Managing Director of the DGHS. In 1985, when the DGHS already had about 12,000 members, Atrott took part in a hearing on euthanasia in the German Bundestag .

In July 1987, a decision by the Munich Higher Regional Court declared that “euthanasia” using potassium cyanide in the Hermy Eckert case was in conformity with the law; Atrott had supplied the poison for this. In May 1992 Atrott was temporarily arrested and released one day on bail of 200,000  DM . According to the DGHS, Atrott then moved to Switzerland. On January 23, 1993, Atrott was arrested again while selling potassium cyanide in Hamburg and remained in custody for almost a year.

The Augsburg public prosecutor's office brought charges against him for tax evasion and violation of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance; the court hearing at the Augsburg Regional Court in March 1994 resulted in a two-year suspended sentence and a fine after his confession .

In November 1986, a desperate mother killed her child with cancer with potassium cyanide. After her presentation of the facts, she had received the poison from Atrott. However, Atrott could not be proven that he had actually obtained the potassium cyanide. Atrott is said to have threatened and insulted a (former) employee over the phone in 1992.

Resignation from the DGHS

With the declaration by the DGHS management, which has meanwhile been set up , that Atrott, who was in custody, was no longer interested in continuing his office as DGHS President, Atrott was deleted from the register as the legal representative. Atrott denies this consent. After mutual exclusions and dismissals, an arbitration settlement ended the quarrels in 1997: Atrott renounced positions and membership in the DGHS in exchange for a severance payment.

Antichrist agitation

Early preoccupation with the Bible and the New Testament cemented his aversion to the Christian churches, which he regards as impostors. Since 1998, Atrott has resumed his work on Christianity , particularly Jesus Christ . Among other things, Atrott developed the theses that the stories surrounding the birth of Jesus were largely taken from the Mithras cult , that Jesus really wanted to destroy humanity and founded a sect, the Christians, for this, and that on Cross Judas Iscariot would have died as a doppelganger of Jesus, just as Paul was really Jesus and was responsible for the fire in Rome in AD 64. Atrott first published his theories on the Internet and later self-published .

Publications (selection)

• Pity or murder? 1984.
• Man is forgotten. In: Stephan Wehowsky (Ed.): To die like a person. 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memelner Dampfboot, Issue No. 16 August 20, 1954 ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.7 MB) In: Memeler Dampfboot , No. 16, August 20, 1954, p. 2, left Column. “Hans-Henning Atrott from Memel, Kirchenstrasse 3, is the son of the pastor of the Jakobus parish, who is still missing while his wife Edith has passed away. The boy is currently in Mecklenburg with his maternal grandparents. "
2. ^ Atrott, Hans Henning. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
3. ^ Atrott, Hans Henning. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
4. ^ Atrott, Hans Henning. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
5. ^ Atrott, Hans Henning. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
6. ↑ Ludger Fittkau, Peter Gehring: To the history of assisted dying . ( Memento of September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Parliament , 4/2008, supplement.
7. ↑ File number 1 Ws 23/87 OLG Munich. In: NJW 1987, pp. 2940-2946
8. ↑ Hackethal and the consequences . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/86; Interview with Atrott
9. ↑ Statement of the DGHS on the processes surrounding its then President (PDF)
10. ↑ Infernal pain . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1993 ( online ).
11. ↑ 3,000 marks for a capsule of potassium cyanide . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 15, 1994
12. ↑ 120 potassium cyanide capsules . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1994 ( online ).
13. ↑ I don't want to live like this anymore . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1994 ( online ).
14. ↑ Schweinology, jeijeijei . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1993 ( online ).
15. ↑ Jesus' Bluff - The universal Scandal of the World (M. Magnes). PublishAmerica, Baltimore 2009, ISBN 978-1-61582-816-6 .