Konrad Schäfer

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Konrad Schäfer during the Nuremberg Trials

Konrad Wilhelm Philip Schäfer (born January 7, 1911 in Mulhouse ; † after 1951) was a German physician and junior physician on the staff of the Research Institute for Aviation Medicine. He was due to his human experiments in World War II when the physician process accused, but was acquitted.

Schäfer studied at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Innsbruck and graduated from the University of Heidelberg in December 1935. Schäfer received his doctorate in 1936 and from 1937 worked, with interruptions, as an assistant at the chemotherapeutic laboratory of Schering AG . In November 1941 he went to the medical testing and teaching department of the Air Force in Jüterbog and lectured on the results of human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp on the topic of thirst and thirst control at the distress conference in October 1942. In 1944 he worked at the Research Institute for Aviation Medicine of the Reich Aviation Minister . He is considered to be the inventor of a method for seawater desalination , which was tested on the Roma in 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp .

Because of his human experiments he was charged at the Nuremberg doctors' trial, but acquitted on August 20, 1947. Until 1951 he was in the service of the United States Air Force at Randolph Air Base in San Antonio ( Texas ).

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 524.
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Matthias Meusch: Doctors trial, Nuremberg. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 14 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statement by Konrad Schäfer of December 10, 1946 ( memento of July 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Nuremberg trials Project
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Konrad Wilhelm Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century