Hermann Wanckel

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Hermann Wanckel

Hermann Wanckel (born September 12, 1895 in Meyenburg ; † July 6, 1953 in Waldheim prison ) was a German doctor.

Life

Wanckel studied medicine at the University of Rostock from the summer semester of 1918 . After completing the Physikum, he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which made him Dr. med. PhD . In the same year he established himself as a general practitioner in Parchim .

In 1933 he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party , the National Socialist German Medical Association and the Sturmabteilung . He resigned from the SA in the year of the Röhm putsch . In 1941 he became a shop steward in the security service of the Reichsführer SS . During World War II he was a senior physician in the driving replacement department in Parchim.

After the end of the war in southern Mecklenburg , he was the only doctor to stay in Parchim, even though the city had been handed over to the Red Army on May 3, 1945 without a fight. He was arrested on August 12, 1945 and taken to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . He was taken over by the German People's Police on February 10, 1950. Since he "had given essential support to the National Socialist tyranny as a representative of the security service", the Chemnitz district court sentenced him to "15 years in penitentiary measure" as part of the Waldheim trials on May 12, 1950 . At the age of 58, he died in the Waldheim penitentiary “of cardiac insufficiency”. He left his wife Käthe geb. Wünscher and two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig, inventory 20036, No. 1886/11.
  2. ↑ Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Dissertation: An observation of congenital stenosis of the aortic ostium, combined with stenosis of the ostium venosum sinistrum with a closed ventricular septum .
  4. ↑ Holdings 5.12-7 / 9 Rostock Medical Commission (1830–1924) Sign. 42.
  5. ↑ File number W / 1667/50/1953/201.
personal data
SURNAME Wanckel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wanckel, Hermann Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Meyenburg , Prignitz
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1953
Place of death Waldheim correctional facility