Max Blancke

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Max Blancke (born March 23, 1909 in Heinsberg , †  April 27, 1945 in Hurlach ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in several concentration camps .

Life

Max Blancke, who had a doctorate in medicine, was a member of the SS (membership no. 162.897). Blancke worked as a camp doctor in the Dachau concentration camp from 1940 and in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1941 . In mid-1942 he was transferred to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp as the successor to Hans Eisele . From April 10, 1943 to January 20, 1944, Blancke was on-site physician at the Majdanek concentration camp and also chief physician at the SS and Police Leader in Lublin . In March 1944, Blancke was transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp .

The last stop of Blancke, who at least in Majdanek and Plaszow participated in the selection of disabled prisoners for gassing , was the Dachau subcamp Kaufering IV . Due to the typhus epidemic that was rampant there , Blancke was one of two SS members who were allowed to enter the camp. American soldiers had already reached the Kauferinger camp complex shortly before the Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945 . Just like other subcamps, the Kaufering IV subcamp was evacuated shortly before the US Army marched in on April 28, 1945. In the course of the liquidation of the camp, SS men set fire to the prisoners' barracks on the morning of April 27, 1945 on orders from Blancke . American soldiers found around 360 bodies of prisoners in Kaufering IV, although it is not certain whether these unfit to march were burned alive or had been murdered beforehand.

On the evening of April 27, 1945, Blancke committed suicide together with his wife in his own home.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048. The time of National Socialism ). 2nd Edition. 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 .
  • Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 52.
  2. ↑ a b See Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The Place of Terror - History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , Volume 2 - Early Camps, Dachau, Emslandlager, Verlag CH Beck, Nördlingen 2005, p. 367f.
personal data
SURNAME Blancke, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Heinsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1945
Place of death Hurlach