Karl Wimmer (physician)

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Karl Wimmer (born October 24, 1910 in Mainz , † October 13, 1946 in Rendsburg ) was a German medic and medical officer in the Air Force .

Life

Wimmer graduated after completing his school career a degree in medicine and graduated in 1935 at the University of Munich Promotion Dr. med. from. The title of his dissertation was On the Forces Effective in Seed Supply . He later completed his habilitation .

After completing his studies, Wimmer was August Hirt's assistant at the University of Greifswald and followed Hirt in 1938 to the Anatomical Institute of the University of Frankfurt . Wimmer became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 and rose in the SA to a medical squad leader.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Wimmer was probably drafted into the Wehrmacht . From 1942 at the latest, Wimmer was, in addition to Anton Kiesselbach , Hirt's assistant at the University of Strasbourg . There, Hirt experimented with his assistants on the Lost War Gas . The experiments were carried out later on animals and from November 1942 on prisoners of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp . During the test series, Wimmer and Hirt also suffered damage from mustard. Under the supervision of Hirt, Wimmer carried out the attempts to lose the concentration camp prisoners. The former Revierkapo Ferdinand Holl reported on these experiments after the end of the war. B. during a first series of experiments 30 inmates suffered severe burns and lung damage. In the period that followed, at least eight of the 30 prisoners died.

A transfer from Wimmer to the XI. Fliegerkorps in April 1943 was withdrawn at the instigation of Wolfram Sievers , managing director of the SS - Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe . At the beginning of August 1943, Wimmer returned to his assistantship in Strasbourg. After the US Army took Strasbourg at the end of November 1944, Wimmer and Kiesselbach were drafted into the Wehrmacht.

After the war, Wimmer was in Allied internment and committed there in October 1946, suicide .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Alexander Mitscherlich , Fred Mielke: Medicine without humanity: Documents of the Nürnberger Ärzteprozesses , 1st edition, Heidelberg: Fischer 1960. ISBN 3-596-22003-3 , paperback will be distributed in 2008 in the 16th edition.
  • Angelika Uhlmann: August Hirt and his colleagues Kiesselbach, Wimmer and Mayer. The careers before the University of Strasbourg . Rev. All. Pays Lang. Everything. 43 (3) 2011, pp. 333-340.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 356
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 678
  3. ↑ Alexander Mitscherlich, Fred Mielke: Medicine without humanity: Documents of the Nürnberger Ärzteprozesses , Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 216
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 362f.
  5. ↑ Alexander Mitscherlich, Fred Mielke: Medicine without humanity: Documents des Nürnberger Ärzteprozesses , Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 219
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 380
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 384
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and medical officer in the Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1946
Place of death Rendsburg