Julius Jung (doctor)

Julius Jung (born August 29, 1914 in Eltville ; † October 20, 1944 ) was a German concentration camp doctor and SS-Hauptsturmführer .

career

Jung completed a degree in medicine and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In February 1933 he joined the NSDAP . During the Second World War he joined the Waffen SS in early October 1940 . At first he was employed as a camp doctor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He then worked in Auschwitz concentration camp in October / November 1941 . He was then used in the 6th SS Mountain Division "North" .

Jung died on October 20, 1944. According to the SS-Standartenführer Franz Schreiber , he committed suicide in order to evade the imminent prisoner of war.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports , KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-11263-7 .

• Stefan Klemp: Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The story of a manhunt. Prospero, Münster and Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-09-4 , p. 64, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports , 1995, p. 283
2. ^ Stefan Klemp: Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The story of a manhunt , Münster and Berlin 2010, p. 64