Hans Wilhelm King

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Hans Wilhelm König (born May 13, 1912 in Stuttgart ; whereabouts after 1962 unknown) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and worked as a camp doctor in the concentration camps Auschwitz and Neuengamme .

Life

After completing his school career, König studied medicine and in 1938 completed a nine-month internship as an assistant doctor at the Göttingen University Hospital . In July 1938 he and Dagmar Kalling (a noblewoman from Sweden) married; the marriage had three children. From November 1939, König worked as an assistant doctor at the Höxter health department . In Godelheim ( Höxter district ), König and his family lived on the Maygadessen estate from the beginning of 1941. On March 30, 1943 doctorate king with a thesis called The influence of intravenous injections of digestive juices on blood status of rabbits with special reference to pernicious anemia at the University of Göttingen to Dr. med.

König joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1939 and was a member of the Waffen SS from mid-June 1943 . It was probably at this point in time that he was transferred to the main camp of Auschwitz or Auschwitz-Birkenau as a camp doctor . In the women's camp he also took part in the selection of prisoners for gas chambers , where they were then murdered. König also performed pseudo-medical electroshock treatments on sick female inmates. From late summer 1944, König succeeded Horst Fischer as a camp doctor in Auschwitz-Monowitz . In the course of the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, König ended up in the Neuengamme concentration camp via the Mittelbau concentration camp in January 1945 , where he again worked as a camp doctor.

After the end of the war

King's wife reported her husband's death to the authorities at the end of the war and moved to Sweden with their children at the end of 1945. König himself went into hiding at the end of the war. Under the pseudonym Dr. med. Ernst Peltz moved König to Holtdorf ( Colnrade parish ), where he received a settlement permit as a country doctor from the British authorities . After rumors circulated about König that he might not be a doctor, the local medical association asked König in the early 1960s to submit appropriate documents to prove his license to practice medicine. König (alias Peltz) closed his practice in April 1962 "due to health reasons" and moved to an unknown location. Its whereabouts are unknown.

See also

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3rd edition, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 412 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 325.
  3. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. 1980, p. 399.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 434.
personal data
SURNAME King, Hans Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH after 1962