Herbert Grohmann

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Herbert Grohmann (born September 13, 1908 in Breslau ; † unknown) was a German medic and racial hygienist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Grohmann studied medicine at the University of Breslau , which he completed in 1934 with a state examination. He then completed his medical internships at various hospitals and was awarded a doctorate in 1937 in Breslau. med. PhD .

As a student, he had already joined the NSDAP (membership number 544.053) and the SS (membership number 51.663) two years before the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1931 , where he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer at the beginning of May 1942 . As a member of the SS medical storm, he was employed from February 1936 at the "Office for Population Policy and Hereditary Health Care at the Reichsführer SS", where he was in charge of the hereditary files department. From the beginning of November 1936 to the beginning of July 1937 he took part in the race hygiene course at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A) to qualify for this position . The head of the KWI-A Eugen Fischer finally offered Grohmann an assistant position at his facility, which he took up at the beginning of January 1938. Financed by the DFG , he was able to publish three articles via the KWI-A. He also worked on marriage proposals from SS members according to hereditary biological aspects.

After the attack on Poland and the German occupation of the country , he was transferred to the Lodz Health Department as a medical advisor in autumn 1939, where he headed the genetic and racial care department from February 1940. He was later promoted to senior medical officer. In this role he elected u. a. Polish children for Germanization and is said to have participated in the selection of Polish patients at the Kochanowka institution. He also acted as a district commissioner for race policy and worked on a voluntary basis for the security service of the Reichsführer SS in the SD section "Litzmannstadt". At the beginning of 1943 he was drafted to the Eastern Front as a troop doctor for the Security Police and the SD. From June 1943 he was assigned to Einsatzgruppe B and from August 1944 to the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2) . In January 1945 he was sent to Berlin .

After the end of the war, he and other accused were found in absentia by a court in Lodz for the murder of patients at the Kochanowka Asylum for premeditated murder. Since his whereabouts were unknown, this procedure had no consequences for him. At the beginning of the 1950s he was unmolested by the judiciary and trusted doctor of the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institute in Lübeck. He was questioned by the Public Prosecutor General in Frankfurt am Main in 1961.

Fonts

  • Investigations into the question of goiter inheritance. Triltsch, Würzburg 1937 (also Breslau, med. Diss., 1937).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel C. Hüntelmann, Johannes Vossen, Herwig Czech (ed.): Health and State: Studies on the History of Health Offices in Germany, 1870–1950. Matthiesen, Husum 2006, ISBN 978-3-7868-4104-3 , p. 253.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 202 .
personal data
SURNAME Grohmann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and racial hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century