Hermann Fischer (medic, 1883)

Hermann Fischer (born March 22, 1883 in Coburg ; † 1959 ) was a German physician and on-site doctor in the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Life

Fischer was born into a family of innkeepers in Coburg. In 1909 he received his doctorate from the LMU in Munich. In 1931 Fischer joined the SS (membership number 19.251) and one year later the NSDAP (membership number 1.168.069). During the Second World War, he initially worked as a senior staff doctor in the Waffen SS . With the General SS he rose to SS-Standartenführer in 1939 . From 1943 Fischer worked as a doctor in several Nazi concentration camps: from autumn 1943 as the first camp doctor in the concentration camp (KZ) Bergen-Belsen and from April 1944 as a camp doctor in the Dutch concentration camp Herzogenbusch near Vught . In October 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen-SS Fischer came to the Flossenbürg concentration camp as an on-site doctor, and was involved in its evacuation in April 1945 to Dachau.

After the end of the war, Fischer remained in American captivity for two years and was then extradited to Holland, where he was imprisoned for another two years. Subsequently, as before the war, he ran a doctor's practice in Düsseldorf . In the criminal trial that began in 1955 before the Weiden District Court in Upper Palatinate , he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for complicity in murder in 40 cases. Alfred Seidl , who had previously defended Rudolf Hess and other high-ranking Nazis, took over his defense . The court considered it proven that Fischer had participated in the killing of alleged terminally ill prisoners with phenol - novocaine injections. Although Fischer recognized the reprehensibility of the act, he promoted it and proceeded insidiously. Fischer, on the other hand, stated that as an officer in the First World War he naturally carried out the orders of the SS leadership, but also protested against them. Since his civil rights were denied for just as long , the rector and dean of Munich University also revoked his doctorate in 1957.

literature

• Toni Siegert: The Flossenbürg concentration camp. Founded for so-called anti-social and criminals. In: Martin Broszat , Elke Fröhlich (Ed.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Domination and society in conflict. Volume II, Part A, Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-486-49371-X .
• Stefan Hördler: Rationalization of the concentration camp system 1943–1945 , in: Michael Wildt, u. a. (Ed.): Work in National Socialism , Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• LG Weiden, May 29, 1956 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XIII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1975, No. 436, pp. 743–769 Subject of the proceedings: Participation of a camp doctor from KL Flossenbürg in the killing of at least 40 sick and incapacitated inmates by injections. Participation in the execution of prisoners in the crematorium and on the roll call square

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Pukrop: SS medic between camp duty and front duty. The staffing of the medical department in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945. Dissertation University of Hannover 2015, doi : 10.15488 / 8553 , p. 131.
2. ↑ Stefanie Harrecker: Degradierte Doctors: The revocation of the doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich during the time of National Socialism , 2007, p. 230.
3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 153
4. ↑ Concentration camp doctor Dr. Fischer in court again , report in the Passauer Neue Presse from May 29, 1956.
5. ↑ Alexandra-Eileen Wenck: Between human trafficking and the “final solution”. The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 2000, p. 124
6. ↑ Three years in prison for concentration camp doctor Dr. Fischer , report in the Passauer Neue Presse on May 31, 1956.
7. ↑ Stefanie Harrecker: Degradierte Do Doctors , 2007, p. 231.