Herbert Gorgon

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Herbert Gorgon , also Walter Hans Gorgon (* 11. February 1907 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; † 27. October 1943 ) was a German physician and District Chief for the Nazi era in German-occupied Poland .

Life

Gorgon completed in Poland after the end of his school career, a degree in medicine and a doctorate Dr. med. He headed the Association of German University Students in Lemberg, Poland, since 1918. From 1932 he was active in the Young German Party .

After the outbreak of World War II , Gorgon became a soldier in the Wehrmacht . With the beginning of 1940 worked in the district of Krakow of the General Government under Governor Otto Wächter in the health service subdivision. In April 1940, Gorgon received by the immigrant central office Litzmannstadt the German citizenship . In October 1940 Gorgon joined the SS and received the rank of SS-Untersturmführer. In the SS, Gorgon achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. At the beginning of January 1941 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 8,691,544). From April 1941 to August 1941 he was a research assistant at the Foreign Office and was deployed in Sofia and Skopje . In August 1941, Gorgon became the deputy chief of the district in Zloczów in the Galicia district . In July 1942 he became district chief in Kolomea and held this position until July 27, 1943. In this capacity, Gorgon ordered the Ukrainian administrative authorities to list the Jews living in his district and forbade Jewish waste collectors to stay outside the ghettos .

Gorgon was arrested in the summer of 1943 due to a homosexual relationship with a young man in Zloczów in early 1942. On August 6, 1943, Gorgon received a death sentence from the SS Police Court in Krakow in its Lemberg branch for “unnatural fornication”. A pardon for Gorgon was advocated by the main office of the SS court and high-ranking representatives of the administration in the district of Galicia. Under the direction of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler Gorgon got a gun with which he in his prison cell in October 1943 suicide committed.

literature

  • Thomas Sandkühler: “Final Solution” in Galicia. The murder of Jews in eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz. 1941-1944. Dietz Successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 , pp. 453f. (At the same time: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 1994).
  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1944. Organization and execution of a state mass crime. Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 ( Studies on Contemporary History 50), (At the same time: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1994).
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 70

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives by Berthold Beitz 1941-1944 , Bonn 1996, pp. 453f.
  2. ^ A b c Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, p. 414.
  3. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Gorgon, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorgon, Walter Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1943
Place of death Lviv