Kurt Uhlenbroock

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Kurt Erich Willy Uhlenbroock (* March 2, 1908 in Rostock ; † August 7, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and brief physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp .

biography

Uhlenbroock, son of a businessman, was a doctor of surgeon . He joined the SA in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937 ( membership number 3,982,866). From 1938 Uhlenbroock worked as a chief police officer in Hamburg. At the beginning of January 1940 Uhlenbroock became a member of the Waffen SS (membership number 391.825) and was employed as a medical officer in the 4th SS Police Panzer Grenadier Division . From February 25, 1942 to March 18, 1942, he worked for the SS replacement battalion in Oranienburg and from the beginning of June 1942 he was employed at the SS medical department in Berlin. To combat the disease, Uhlenbroock was briefly transferred to Auschwitz on August 17, 1942, where he served as a medical officer until September 1, 1942. In Auschwitz, however, Uhlenbroock infected himself with typhus , and was followed by Eduard Wirths as on-site doctor in Auschwitz . After his recovery, Uhlenbroock was assigned to the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" on November 25, 1942 . In mid-July 1943, Uhlenbroock moved to the medical office of the regulatory police . With the Waffen-SS Uhlenbroock reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer in 1943 .

After the end of the Second World War , he worked as a resident doctor with his own practice in Hamburg and also worked in Hamburg's hospitals.

In the course of the investigation into the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt , Uhlenbroock was arrested on November 14, 1960 and questioned in Hamburg. On November 17, 1960 Uhlenbroock replied to the investigating officer: "I myself was an SS prisoner in Auschwitz". The investigators found Uhlenbroock through a list of American war criminals made available by the former Auschwitz inmate Hermann Langbein . This list included 599 named accused, Uhlenbroock was registered with the number 561. He was accused of assigning camp doctors to so-called "ramp duty" and ordering selections in the prisoner infirmary. On November 29, 1960, Uhlenbroock was given exemption from custody and his prosecution was discontinued for lack of evidence and lack of witnesses. On September 4, 1964, Uhlenbroock testified as a witness in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.

literature

  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2
  • 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 .
  • Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, Ullstein-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2
  • Werner Renz: The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial - Two Prehistory , essay, Frankfurt am Main, 2002 (pdf)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 634
  2. ↑ Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 286.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 409
  4. ↑ quoted from: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 409
  5. ↑ Werner Renz: The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial - Two Prehistory , Essay, Frankfurt am Main, 2002, p. 15ff. (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Uhlenbroock, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlenbroock, Kurt Erich Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS medical officer at Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1992
Place of death Hamburg