Karl-Werner Maassen
Karl-Werner Maassen , also Maassen (born March 1, 1910 in Uetersen , † 20th century or 21st century) was a German concentration camp doctor and SS-Hauptsturmführer . He was a camp doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp .
Life
Maaßen completed a study of medicine , which he in 1937 at the University of Kiel with promotion to Dr. med. completed. The title of his dissertation was "On a case of letter masochism". After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4.088.767) and the SS (SS number 289.238). In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer. His service position (in order) was with the Panzergrenadier-Ersatz-Bataillon 13, on the SS-military training area Seelager , with the 26th Panzer-Division (Wehrmacht) and with the 34th SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Landstorm Nederland" (Dutch No. 2) , where he worked as a brigade doctor.
From 1937 to October 1938 Maaßen was a camp doctor in the Buchenwald concentration camp. There he participated with Werner Kirchert and Erwin Ding-Schuler, among other things, in the sterilization and castration of male camp inmates, which was either applied according to the law against dangerous habitual criminals, or the intervention took place after "voluntary applications" at the hereditary health courts , to which the inmates were forced. Due to the forced "voluntariness" Maaßen was able to emasculate the prisoners according to the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring without a trial before a hereditary health court; In July 1937, the SS doctors in the concentration camps were given official medical authorization by an order and were allowed to castrate the prisoners in the camps in these cases. The exact number of castrations by Maaßen has not yet been determined. In addition to the castrations, Maassen carried out other operations and therapies on prisoners in the concentration camp.
After 1941 Maassen joined the 6th SS Mountain Division “North” . After the war he ran a doctor's practice in Kiel .
swell
- Judith Hahn: Grawitz / Genzken / Gebhardt. Three careers in the medical service of the SS. Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-932577-56-7
- Stefan Klemp : Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The story of a manhunt . Prospero Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-09-4
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith Hahn: Grawitz / Genzken / Gebhardt. Three careers in the medical service of the SS. Münster 2008, p. 161
- ^ Johannes Tuchel : Concentration Camp. Organizational history and function of the “Inspection of the Concentration Camps” 1934–1938 , p. 291
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| SURNAME | Maassen, Karl-Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maassen, Karl-Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concentration camp doctor and SS Hauptsturmführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uetersen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |