Joachim Mrugowsky

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Joachim Mrugowsky as a defendant in the Nuremberg medical trial

Joachim Mrugowsky (born August 15, 1905 in Rathenow an der Havel, † June 2, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Oberführer and head of the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS .

Life

Joachim Mrugowsky completed an apprenticeship in banking after graduating from high school in 1923. He then studied medicine and biology, especially botany, in Halle. During this time he became a member of the Association of German Students in Halle . He obtained his doctorate in 1930. sc. nat. and passed the medical state examination in 1931.

In 1930 Joachim Mrugowsky joined the NSDAP ( membership number 210.049). In 1930/31 he was a group leader of the NSDStB at the University of Halle . In this function he led the first actions against the Protestant theologian Günther Dehn . At the same time Mrugowsky also joined the SA ; For three months he was the standard doctor there. From 1931 he was a member of the SS-Standarte Küstrin , last leader of this standard. 1933, he joined ultimately with the rank untersturmführer in the security service of the SS (SD) a. In 1933 he became an assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Halle, where in February 1934 he was given a teaching position for "Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene" . In 1935 he became a full-time SS leader in the SD Upper Section North-West (Hanover). He also took on a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover on the subject of "human heredity and racial hygiene" . The Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler commissioned him in 1937 to manage the hygiene institute of the SS (later Waffen-SS), which was currently being set up, with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . At the same time he was a standard doctor for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . In 1937 Mrugowsky completed his habilitation in Halle with a hygienic examination of a Mansfeld miners' village. In 1940 he was appointed lecturer for hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Berlin. From September 1943 he was chief hygienist with the Reichsarzt SS and police .

Fatal human experiments

From 1943 Mrugowsky was the supreme hygienist and head of office III at the Reichsarzt SS and police in numerous human experiments on prisoners in the various National Socialist concentration camps .

Mrugowsky led, among other things, experiments in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in which prisoners were shot at with poisoned ammunition ( aconitine nitrate ). Two inmates had their thighs shot through; as they showed no toxic effects, they were excluded from the experiment. The poison ammunition got stuck in the thigh of three inmates. Mrugowsky recorded her death:

“The one poisoned tried in vain to vomit. To do this, he put four fingers of his hand deep in his mouth up to the base joints. Still no vomiting started. ... The motor restlessness later grew so strong that the people reared up, threw themselves down again, rolled their eyes, and made senseless movements with their hands and arms. ... Death occurred 121, 123 and 129 minutes after receiving the shot. "

Indictment and execution after the end of the war

Mrugowsky was in the physician process accused of being criminal experiments on human beings to death by hanging sentenced and 1948 in the former war criminal prison Landsberg (War Criminals Prison No. 1) executed .

literature

  • Florian Bruns: Medical Ethics in National Socialism. Developments and protagonists in Berlin 1939–1945 . Series: History and Philosophy of Medicine. Vol. 7. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2009 ISBN 978-3-515-09226-5 .
  • Erhard Geißler : Biological weapons, not in Hitler's arsenals. Biological and toxin weapons in Germany 1915–1945 . Lit, Münster 1998. ISBN 3-8258-2955-3 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 121-122.

Web links

Commons : Joachim Mrugowsky  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 152.
  2. ^ Report with photo ( memento from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), page accessed January 8, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Mrugowsky, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Oberführer and head of the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1948
Place of death Landsberg am Lech