Heinrich Plaza

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Heinrich Plaza (born July 10, 1912 in Hultschin , † February 20, 1968 in Altötting ) was a German concentration camp doctor and SS-Hauptsturmführer . He was the head of pathology in Buchenwald concentration camp .

Plaza had a doctorate in medicine and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 6.446.500) and SS (SS number 352.853) in 1938. In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1942. He was the head of the pathological department at Buchenwald concentration camp and representative of Waldemar Hoven . There he participated in the mass murder. Allegedly out of incompetence, he changed jobs several times until the end of the war, so after 1943 he worked in the Mittelbau-Dora and Ohrdruf , Dachau , Natzweiler , Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps . After 1945 he ran a doctor's practice in Perach in the Altötting district . Due to an advanced multiple sclerosis , his investigation was discontinued in 1952 by the Traunstein public prosecutor . A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945. Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 464.
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 317
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 317
  3. ↑ David A. Hackett. The Buchenwald Report. Beck 2002, p. 256
personal data
SURNAME Plaza, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp doctor and SS Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hultschin
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1968
Place of death Altötting