Heinrich beef

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Heinrich Friedrich Rindfleisch (born March 3, 1916 in Strasbourg ; † July 1969 ) was a German doctor and SS officer.

Beef was born in Strasbourg in 1916. After the First World War , the family moved to Berlin, since Strasbourg was awarded to France under the Versailles Treaty . Rindfleisch began studying medicine at the Humboldt University in 1935 and passed the state examination in 1941. In 1942 he received his license to practice medicine . He joined the SS in 1938 and received basic training with the medical replacement battalion of the Waffen SS. In the following years he worked as a camp doctor in the Groß-Rosen , Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . From March 1, 1943, he was active as a site doctor in the Majdanek concentration camp . There he took part in human experiments which resulted in numerous deaths.

In January 1945 he was assigned to the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" . After the end of World War II , he was wanted as a murderer by France, Poland and Belgium. However, he was able to continue his medical career without interruption. He first worked in a surgical ward in a Berlin hospital and then moved to the Ruhr area, where he was the chief physician of the surgical department of the Johanniter Hospital in Rheinhausen until his death in July 1969 . He was never held responsible for his actions. After his death, however, he was accepted as one of the main perpetrators in the Majdanek trial at the Düsseldorf Regional Court .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was Was Before and After 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 498.

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Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 59.