Karl Babor

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Babor (born August 23, 1918 in Vienna ; †  January 21, 1964 near Addis Abeba ) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer (1944) and camp doctor in several concentration camps .

Life

Karl Babor, a doctor of medicine, was a member of the SS (SS no. 296.670) and NSDAP ( member number 6.242.838). From November 1941 he was a camp doctor in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , where he, like camp doctor Friedrich Entress , was involved in killing inmates suffering from typhus using phenol and hydrocyanic acid injections . Both Babor and Entress received the War Merit Cross 2nd Class for “services in combating the typhus epidemic” .

From mid-June 1942, Babor and Waldemar Wolter were assistant doctors in the "Biochemical Experimental Station" in the Dachau concentration camp . There, under the direction of Heinrich Schütz , sepsis tests were carried out on prisoners in order to test the effectiveness of biochemical healing methods against sulfonamides in infections. A total of four test series were carried out between the middle and the end of 1942. At least 28 prisoners died in the extremely painful and inhumane attempts in which prisoners were also injected with their own pus. Babor was then employed as a camp doctor in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp .

On December 10, 1943, Babor was transferred to a higher position, namely to the "main office" in Office Area D, specifically DIII, of the WVHA in nearby Oranienburg, called Inspection of the Concentration Camps . From August 1944 he was a troop doctor with the 1st Battalion of the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 6 " Theodor Eicke " of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" .

After the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the French. In the early 1950s, Babor emigrated to Ethiopia and opened a private practice in Addis Ababa. After a manhunt in Austria for his involvement in concentration camp crimes, Babor was found dead with a gunshot wound on January 21, 1964 in a river near Addis Ababa. Babor's body was identified at the Menelik Hospital in Addis Ababa.

Simon Wiesenthal had previously referred to Babors medical experiments on prisoners in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . On January 3, 1964, the Dutch newspaper Het Vrije Volk reported on it. This article also contained an interview with Wiesenthal, where he called on former inmates of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp to report as witnesses to this case. On January 9, 1964, Babor himself admitted to a German journalist that he had been SS-Hauptsturmführer, but described the allegations against him as attempted character assassination .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Angelika Ebbinghaus , Karl Heinz Roth : Medical crimes in court - The human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp , in: Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigl (Ed.): Dachauer Trials - Nazi crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0167-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Thomas Werther: Typhus research in the German Reich 1914 - 1945. Studies on the relationship between science, industry and politics with special consideration of the IG Farben , Inaugural dissertation at the Philipps University of Marburg, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 131 (pdf; 1.1 MB)
  2. ↑ Angelika Ebbinghaus, Karl Heinz Roth: Medical Crimes in Front of a Court - The Human Trials in the Dachau Concentration Camp , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (Ed.): Dachauer Trials - Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 149ff.
  3. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 22.
  4. ^ Yves Ternon , Socrate Helman: Histoire de la médecine SS. Ou le mythe du racisme biologique . Casterman, Paris 1969, p. 212
  5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt : Dead found , issue 18 of January 22, 1964, page 1
  6. ↑ Angelika Ebbinghaus, Karl Heinz Roth: Medical Crimes in Front of a Court - The Human Trials in the Dachau Concentration Camp , in: Ludwig Eiber, Robert Sigl (Ed.): Dachauer Trials - Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 159.
  7. ↑ Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 23, 1964; Page 1: "Viennese concentration camp doctor Karl Babor is dead!"
personal data
SURNAME Babor, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concentration camp doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1964
Place of death Addis Ababa