Johannes Goebel

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Goebel as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Johannes Paul Goebel (born April 28 or October 29, 1891 in Siegen , † August 11, 1952 ) was a German chemist.

Live and act

Johannes Paul (in literature also as Walter Paul Edmund) Goebel worked for Schering AG in the laboratory as a pharmacist and chemist since the 1930s . There he rose to be chief chemist. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.003.519) and the Allgemeine SS (SS number 182.700). In April 1942 he was sent to Auschwitz by Schering AG to work in the medical department as an assistant to Carl Wilhelm Clauberg in human experiments. The main focus of his activity was the mass sterilization of Jewish women. Although he was not a physician, he injected himself. Estimates of the number of victims vary further. Wolfgang Benz assumes 150 to 400, Robert Jay Lifton between 700 and a few thousand. The side effects of the experiments included peritonitis or sepsis. An unknown number of victims died from the attempts. Goebel was also involved in testing contrast media for X-ray purposes on prisoners. For his activities he was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords.

With the advance of the Red Army, Goebel and Clauberg fled to the Ravensbrück concentration camp at the beginning of 1945 via the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . There they continued their experiments. With the end of National Socialism Goebel was temporarily imprisoned. Schering AG fired him at the end of March 1945, but later hired him again. Goebel was heard as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials , but was not charged.

"[Clauberg] ... had a house in the vicinity of the camp made available to him and entrusted him with performing intrauterine injections himself, although Goebel was not a doctor. Goebel boasted so loudly about his actions that the Schering-Werke moved away Eduard de Wind [Schering AG] characterizes him as follows: 'He stuck his nose in everywhere and, without pity, forced all women to submit to the experiments. ... Goebel was rude and sarcastic. ... he (acted) like a little official who got hold of something in the sale. '"(Langbein)

Fonts

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the binary lead alloys , 1918 (dissertation)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 126.
  2. ^ Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi doctors. Medical killing and the psychology of genocide, New York (USA) 2000, p. 277.
  3. ↑ All information, unless otherwise stated, see: Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi doctors. Medical killing and the psychology of genocide, New York (USA) 2000, pp. 272, 277; Gert J. Wlasich, The Schering AG in the time of National Socialism: Contributions to corporate culture in a Berlin group, Berlin 2011, pp. 167f., 170f .; Regional dictionary of persons, article Johannes Paul Goebel .
  4. ^ Eddy de Wind, Jewish Dutch doctor imprisoned in Auschwitz, author of the book I stayed in Auschwitz . Piper Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-492-07001-0 .
  5. ^ Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz . Europa Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-203-51243-3 , pp. 386 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebel, Johannes Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1952