Karl Kahr (physician)

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Karl Kahr (born September 11, 1914 in Fürstenfeld ; † May 13, 2007 in Graz ) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp doctor .

biography

Kahr completed a degree in medicine at the University of Graz and then worked as an assistant doctor at a Graz hospital. He obtained his doctorate in 1940. med. From summer 1940 Kahr belonged to the Waffen SS , where he rose to Hauptsturmführer in 1945. According to his own statements, Kahr then worked as a troop doctor and teacher at a training center for paramedics in Prague and then as a troop doctor in Brno , Breslau and Graz .

From November 1942 Kahr was a camp doctor in the Dachau concentration camp , where he headed the TBC station . In January 1944 Kahr was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and from there immediately to the Dora labor camp. Subsequently, from May 1944, he was the successor to Heinrich Plaza on- site doctor in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and also responsible for the Harzungen and Ellrich satellite camps . Kahr had a relatively good reputation among the prisoners, as did his deputy Alfred Kurzke . At the beginning of January 1945 he was transferred to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Kahr was interned by the Allies. Kahr testified as a witness on April 10, 1947 in the business and administrative main office of the SS and a few months later in the Dachau Dora trial .

“The purpose of Camp Dora was primarily to work in the armaments industry; But when I think about how the prisoners were treated and how they were allowed to die, then I have to realize that systematic attempts were made to exterminate the prisoners. "

- Testimony of the witness and former camp doctor as well as SS leader Karl Kahr during the Dachau Dora trial

Later Kahr worked as a doctor in Graz and then lived again in his hometown.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Kahr's interrogation protocols (PDF; 3.0 MB)
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 295.
  3. ↑ a b Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation - Photo archive: Karl Kahr  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buchenwald.de  
  4. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 253
  5. ↑ Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of death: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora , Göttingen 2001, p. 296f
  6. ↑ Introduction to NMT Case 4 - USA v. Pohl et al. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www. nuremberg.law.harvard.edu @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
  7. ↑ Quoted from Frank Wiedemann: Everyday life in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Methods and strategies of prisoner survival , Peter Lang - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Kahr, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS leader and concentration camp doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenfeld
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century