Hanskarl von Hasselbach
Hanskarl von Hasselbach , actually Hans Karl von Hasselbach , (born November 2, 1903 in Berlin , † December 21, 1981 in Pullach im Isar Valley ) was a German surgeon and attending physician to Adolf Hitler .
Life
Hasselbach, son of the Prussian Rittmeister Karl von Hasselbach, finished his school career in Hirschberg (Silesia) in 1921 with the Abitur . He then completed a degree in medicine at the Universities of Breslau , Munich , Freiburg and Rostock . He was approved in 1927 and was awarded a doctorate in Freiburg with the dissertation "About neck fibroids". med. PhD .
He then became an assistant under the chief physician Georg Magnus at the Bergmannsheil Hospital in Bochum and, after his appointment to the Charité in November 1933, moved to Berlin. In addition to Hasselbach, Magnus Karl Brandt's assistant also came to Berlin, as did Magnus from Jena, known Werner Haase . Brandt became Hitler's first surgical attendant in 1934 and Haase soon after became Brandt's deputy in this function. After Haase temporarily resigned from this post due to health reasons, Hasselbach became another deputy surgeon accompanying Hitler through Brandt's mediation in 1936. Hasselbach had already joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,794,377) and SA before the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1932 . He had changed from the SA to the SS in 1933/34 (SS No. 264.054). Due to his extensive medical work for Hitler and his environment, he was only able to do his habilitation at the University of Munich in 1938 with the work “Die Endangitis obliterans ” . He was released from teaching at the Charité.
With the start of the German-Soviet war his duty station was the Fuehrer's headquarters Wolf's Lair in East Prussia . As an SS doctor he was appointed associate professor on April 20, 1943, and in June 1943 he achieved the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer of the Waffen-SS within the SS . In the course of Brandt's discharge as Hitler's attending physician, Hasselbach also lost his deputy post in October 1944. He was then used in a field hospital on the Western Front.
After the end of the war, Hasselbach was interned by the United States and was questioned as a witness during the Nuremberg trials . The American authorities found him honest and credible. After his release from Allied internment, he headed the surgery department of the Sarepta hospitals of the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel as chief physician from 1949 to 1970 .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Neumann , Henrik Eberle : Was Hitler sick? A final finding. Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2386-9 , p. 103f.
- Hans-Walter Schmuhl , Matthias Benad: Doctors in the Westphalian Diakonissenanstalt Sarepta 1890-1970. Bethel-Verlag, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-922463-99-1 , pp. 201f.
- Wolfram Fischer : Exodus of Sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 1994, ISBN 9783110139457 .
- 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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanskarl von Hasselbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Enrollment of Hanskarl von Hasselbach in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ a b c d Hans-Joachim Neumann, Henrik Eberle: Was Hitler sick ?: a final finding , Bergisch Gladbach 2009, p. 103f.
- ↑ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata , Academy of Sciences in Berlin, p. 578f.
- ↑ a b Excerpt from the seniority list of the SS
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 231.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasselbach, Hanskarl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic, accompanying physician to Hitler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1981 |
| Place of death | Pullach in the Isar Valley |