Hermann Richter (doctor)

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Hermann Richter (born August 13, 1915 in Linz , † probably May 1945 near Linz) was an Austrian doctor. Most recently as SS-Obersturmführer he was a camp doctor in the concentration camps Dachau , Mauthausen and Loibl .

biography

Richter was the son of a gymnastics teacher. After finishing his school career, he completed a medical degree at the University of Innsbruck . During his studies, he joined the University Choir of Skalds in Innsbruck and the NSDStB , although membership of the University Choir of Skalds is controversial and cannot be confirmed by them.

During the Second World War , Richter was a camp doctor in concentration camps , initially in Dachau and from autumn 1941 in Mauthausen . In Dachau and Mauthausen he carried out non-professional operations for training purposes, which in Mauthausen, in half of these cases, led to the death of the inmates treated. A higher death rate could only be avoided by having an assisting inmate doctor. The organs are said to have been removed from healthy prisoners in order to then observe how long they would survive. In Mauthausen he is said to have murdered hundreds of sick Red Army prisoners of war who were no longer fit for forced labor by injecting them into the heart. Finally Richter was treated at the psychiatric-neurological observation station of the Waffen-SS in Giessen . Afterwards he was a camp doctor in the Ravensbrück and Groß Rosen concentration camps . in the Waffen SS in 1943 he reached the rank of Obersturmführer. As a camp doctor at the Loibl concentration camp on the Loibl Pass , he was replaced in this position by Sigbert Ramsauer in August 1943 and was then used again as a camp doctor at the Mauthausen concentration camp.

At the end of the war, he is said to have committed suicide near Linz in May 1945 .

literature

  • Andreas Bösche: Between Emperor Franz Joseph I and Schönerer. Innsbruck University and its student associations 1859–1918. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4362-0 .
  • 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 c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 495.
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Bösche: Between Emperor Franz Joseph I and Schönerer. Innsbruck University and its student associations 1859–1918 , Innsbruck 2008, p. 271, footnote 650
  3. ^ Michael Gehler : Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918–1938 (= Innsbruck research on contemporary history. Vol. 6). Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 1990, ISBN 3-85218-079-1 , p. 288
  4. ↑ Albin Kulhanek: The Academic Choral Society in Innsbruck and the Skald Singers 1907-1945 . 1st edition. Innsbruck May 2008.
  5. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 35
  6. ^ Stefan Klemp : Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The history of a manhunt , Prospero Verlag , Münster / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-09-4 , p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS doctor in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: May 1945
Place of death near Linz