Heinrich Schmidt (medic, 1912)

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Heinrich Schmidt as the defendant.
Heinrich Schmidt (seated) is identified by a witness for the prosecution during the main Nordhausen trial on September 19, 1947.

Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (born March 27, 1912 in Altenburg , † November 28, 2000 in Celle ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and used as a camp doctor in concentration camps .

biography

Schmidt, who in 1937 at the University of Leipzig as a doctor of medicine was awarded his doctorate , was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 555294) and SS (membership. 23069). After the start of the Second World War , Schmidt was initially employed in a military hospital of the Waffen SS .

Schmidt was a camp doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1941 and was transferred from there to Majdanek concentration camp in June 1942 . In October 1943 Schmidt became the first camp doctor in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp and was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp from September 1944 . Between March 1945 and the beginning of April 1945 Schmidt worked as a camp doctor in the Boelkekaserne satellite camp of the Mittelbau concentration camp in Nordhausen . In the course of the evacuation of the Mittelbau concentration camp, Schmidt ended up in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 8 or 9, which was taken over by members of the British army on April 14. Like Alfred Kurzke, Schmidt testified as a witness in the Bergen-Belsen trial on October 25, 1945. At that time he was the chief doctor in the DP camp in Bergen-Belsen.

He was later arrested and indicted and acquitted in the Dachau Dora Trial , which took place as part of the Dachau Trials from August 7, 1947 to December 30, 1947 .

After being arrested again, he was charged on November 26, 1975 by the Düsseldorf Regional Court in the third Majdanek trial of joint complicity in the murder of at least eight prisoners for participating in selections for the gas chamber . For lack of evidence, Schmidt, who was wanted as a murderer in Poland, was acquitted on March 20, 1979 and released on April 19, 1979 from prison.

Schmidt is said to have lived in Uetze in 1985 .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statement by Heinrich Schmidt on October 25, 1945 ( memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the Bergen-Belsen trial (English).
  2. ↑ Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 545.
  3. ↑ Cf. Robert Sigel: In the interest of justice. The Dachau war crimes trials 1945–48. , Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 102
  4. ↑ Cf. After acquittal, escape into the judges' room - tumults in the Düsseldorf Majdanek trial , in: Hamburger Abendblatt , issue 92 of April 20, 1979, p. 2
  5. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ernst Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camp doctor in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2000
Place of death Celle