Mathilde Weber (doctor)

Mathilde Weber , née Mathilde Wolters , also Mathilde Muthig and Mathilde Vogtmann (born June 4, 1909 in Dinslaken ; † August 6, 1996 in Neuhäusel ) was a German doctor. As chief physician at the Idsteiner Kalmenhof from 1939 to 1944, she was significantly involved in the Nazi murders . In the specialist literature she is almost exclusively called Mathilde Weber .

Life

She grew up in a strict Catholic family in Dinslaken on the Lower Rhine. Her father was a Reichsbahn official. She attended the secondary school for girls in Dinslaken, and later switched to the Dominican convent school in Euskirchen .

In 1931 she graduated from high school with moderate grades and began studying medicine at Bonn University . She finished this in 1938 with the award "sufficient". After the mandatory practical year at the Bonn University Clinic and six months looking for a job, she came to the Kalmenhof as an assistant doctor on June 28, 1939 .

At first she was only allowed to carry out administrative activities here. The chief physician (from August 1, 1938 Hans Bodo Gorgaß ) had forbidden her to treat patients because of her inadequate qualifications. When he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in December 1939 , however, she took over the medical management in his place and from then on used a doctorate, which in fact she had not acquired.

In 1939 the number of deaths at the Kalmenhof rose rapidly. Up until this year deaths were the rare exception, but now they have become the rule.

On May 10, 1944, she left because of tuberculosis. She was followed by Hermann Wesse as a doctor until the end of the war, where she stood in for him again in December 1944 and January 1945 due to vacation.

On January 30, 1947, Mathilde Weber was sentenced to death by the 4th Criminal Chamber of the Frankfurt Regional Court “for murder in an unknown number of cases”. The crime scene: the Kalmenhof in Idstein. In the second trial in 1949 it became “aiding and abetting murder in an unknown number of cases”, this time with three years and six months in prison. The duration of her detention was reduced, among other things due to a signature campaign and the support of the Idsteiner Magistrate: After two thirds of the sentence had been served, the remainder of the sentence was waived as part of a pardon. She married her brother-in-law, the concentration camp doctor and Sturmbannführer Julius Muthig . Initially, from 1954 onwards, she worked for him as an office assistant. In 1960, she allegedly successfully applied for approval from the statutory health insurance physician and from then on practiced again. Until 1994 she lived largely undisturbed in Idstein in the immediate vicinity of Kalmenhof and then moved to Neuhäusel.

literature

Rudolf Müller: The home of death. In: Stern No. 45/1987 IIIa / 2
State Welfare Association Hessen: The Kalmenhof then and now. Notes on the exhibition in the Kalmenhof. 3rd edition, Idstein / Kassel 2006 ( PDF )
Christian Schrapper, Dieter Sengling (Hrsg.): The idea of formability - 100 years of socio-educational practice in the Kalmenhof sanatorium. Juventa Verlag, Weinheim / Munich 1988, ISBN 3779907801
LG Frankfurt, February 9, 1949 . In: Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966. Vol. IV, University Press, Amsterdam 1970 (case no. 117, trial against inter alia the doctor We. )
Reinhold Neef: Ella. The home of death, the trial and the life after. Edition Leo, 2017, ISBN 978-3000574184 (Biographical novel about a survivor in the Kalmenhof and the brutal methods of Dr. Weber (later Muthig) and her first trial)

Individual evidence

↑ Information from the residents' registration office of the Montabaur community dated January 12, 2011.
↑ Printed matter 15/1001 (PDF; 598 kB) of the Hessian State Parliament Report of the President of the State Parliament on the symposium on the answer of the State Government to the major question of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group regarding persecution and extermination by the Nazi regime in Hesse published on March 7, 2000 p. 30.
↑ There are contradicting statements about this: In the Stern article, license to practice medicine and practical exercise are clearly presented, Peter Sandner points out in Administration of Murder that her license to practice medicine was revoked and that she allegedly practiced it anyway.

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolters, Mathilde (maiden name); Courageous, Mathilde; Vogtmann, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dinslaken
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1996
Place of death	Neuhäusel

[1] Information from the residents' registration office of the Montabaur community dated January 12, 2011.

[2] Printed matter 15/1001 (PDF; 598 kB) of the Hessian State Parliament Report of the President of the State Parliament on the symposium on the answer of the State Government to the major question of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group regarding persecution and extermination by the Nazi regime in Hesse published on March 7, 2000 p. 30.

[3] There are contradicting statements about this: In the Stern article, license to practice medicine and practical exercise are clearly presented, Peter Sandner points out in Administration of Murder that her license to practice medicine was revoked and that she allegedly practiced it anyway.