Martin Hellinger
Martin Hellinger (born July 17, 1904 in Pirna , † August 13, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German dentist , SS-Hauptsturmführer and worked as a camp doctor in several concentration camps .
Life
After attending secondary school and the University of Leipzig , he passed his state examination in dentistry in 1927 .
According to his own statements, he joined the NSDAP in March 1933 ( membership number 2,969,503), and in July 1933 the SS (SS number 134.328). In 1939 he was promoted to Obersturmführer and drafted into the Wehrmacht in September 1939 , from which he was released as a private in December 1940 . In February 1941 Hellinger was drafted into the Waffen SS with the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer . In November 1944 he was promoted to Hauptsturmführer .
His locations were the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from March to October 1941 as a troop dentist, he was head of the dental service in the Flossenbürg concentration camp from October 1941 to March 1943 and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp from March 1943 to April 1945.
Ravensbrück trial
In court, Hellinger admitted in the first of the seven Ravensbrück trials that he had personally broken out the dead gold teeth or commissioned an inmate to do so, stating that this was his main job as a dentist in the camp.
During the executions, he and the on-site doctor Percival Treite were in the crematorium, waiting for the bodies that were brought to them by the inmates to pull their gold teeth. In court, however, he denied that he had heard anything about what was happening in the camp and that he was only engaged in his medical service.
Hellinger was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Hamburg on February 3, 1947 and released on May 14, 1955 after eight years for “good conduct”.
literature
- Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich : Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Hellinger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellinger, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dentist, working as a camp doctor in concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pirna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |