Max Popiersch

Max Popiersch (born May 26, 1893 in Pless ; † April 21, 1942 in Lublin ) was German SS-Hauptsturmführer and first medical officer in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Popiersch, who holds a doctorate in medicine, was a soldier in the German Army during the First World War . After the end of the war he was a member of the Iron Division until July 1919 , which he left with the rank of private. The NSDAP ( membership number 3531412) and SS (membership. 176,467) occurred at Popiersch 1,933th From the beginning of September 1939 he was a member of the SS disposable troops, which soon became part of the Waffen SS . Afterwards Popiersch was a troop doctor in the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Flossenbürg concentration camp . From there he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940, where he was the first on-site doctor until the end of September 1941. From October 1, 1941, he was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp as an on-site doctor . In the spring of 1942 he fell ill with typhus and died of the consequences of this disease on April 21, 1942 in Lublin.

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 .
• 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 .