Heinrich Schütz (physician)

Emil Heinrich (Heinz) contactor (* 12. April 1906 in Schmiedeberg , † 12. November 1986 in Feldafing ) was a German internist and medical officer , who in the era of National Socialism in human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp participated.

Life

Schütz came from a middle-class family. His father was a spa doctor in Schmiedeberg and a member of a Masonic lodge . From 1925 he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1926 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich . As an inactive , he moved to the universities in Paris and Leipzig . After passing the state exam in 1931, received his doctorate in 1932 for Dr. med.

Chemnitz

In 1936 Schütz became senior physician in the internal department of the Chemnitz City Hospital , joined the SS and the NSDAP the following year . From the end of 1938 he ran his own medical practice in Chemnitz . His field of activity also included engagement and employment examinations, which the SS u. a. as part of the National Socialist racial hygiene demanded from its members.

Dachau

Since 1940 Schütz was employed in the SS military hospital in Dachau. In 1941 he was transferred to the SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler , and in March 1942 - while being promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer  - he took over the management of the internal department of the SS military hospital in Dachau. In mid-June 1942, Schütz became head of the biochemical test station in the infirmary of the Dachau concentration camp . There he tested biochemical remedies on prisoners whom he had infected with bacterial pus . The victims were mainly Polish priests in the pastors' block (Dachau concentration camp) . The background was the thesis that diseases are based on a disruption of the tissue salts in the body cells and can be cured by adding minerals in homeopathic dilution. Although most of the trials ended with the death of the sick, the biochemical agents continued to be tried, regardless of the fact that effective drugs with the sulfonamides were available. Waldemar Wolter and Karl Babor, among others, helped him in these experiments . In September 1944, Schütz moved to the SS hospital in Bad Aussee as chief physician .

eat

Detained in an internment camp by the Allies at the end of the war , Schütz was released in 1947 and settled in Essen as a specialist in internal medicine . In 1971, because of the human experiments in custody taken, he reached on payment of a deposit his bail . In December 1972, the District Court of Munich II (AZ 12 Ks 1/72) opened a case against Schütz because of his involvement in human experiments. On November 20, 1975, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for “ aiding and abetting murder and attempted murder” in eleven cases. Due to a medically certified incapacity for prison, Schütz did not have to begin his prison sentence.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 13 , 1564
2. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Blanke, editorial critical justice (ed.): The legal processing of the injustice state . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5054-7 , p. 569.
3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 564
4. ↑ Angelika Ebbinghaus, Karl Heinz Roth: Medical Crimes in Front of a Court - The Human Trials in the Dachau Concentration Camp , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer Trials - Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 149 ff.
5. ↑ Stefanie Michaela Baumann: Human attempts and reparation. The long dispute over compensation and recognition of the victims of National Socialist human experiments . Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58951-1 , p. 40

literature

• Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims , 3rd edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
• Angelika Ebbinghaus, Karl Heinz Roth: Medical crimes in court - The human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp , in: Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer processes - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 . Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0167-2 .