Oskar Begusch

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Oskar Begusch (* January 21, 1897 in Marburg an der Drau , † January 11, 1944 in Graz ) was an Austrian psychiatrist , director of the state insane sanatorium and nursing home in Feldhof near Graz and held various offices in the National Socialist power apparatus.

Life

Begusch, the son of an Imperial and Royal postal controller, passed the school leaving examination at the Leoben State High School with distinction. During the First World War he was a kuk lieutenant.

After studying medicine , he was promoted to Dr. med is doing his doctorate . Begusch was an assistant at the Graz Neurological Clinic from 1921 to 1928 and then worked as a general practitioner in Graz until 1939. On September 15, 1939, Begusch replaced the then head of the “Am Feldhof” institution, Dr. Weeber and was then director of the institution until January 1944. Under his leadership, the Feldhof developed into a center for eugenic measures in Styria .

During his studies in 1915 he became a member of the Graz fraternity Allemannia . From 1921 to 1924 he was also district leader of District VIII (Austria) of the German student body . In the so-called “constitutional dispute” he was a representative of the radical ethnic-anti-Semitic wing. In 1919 Begusch applied for the exclusion of all Jewish members, which was also approved in 1920. He was also a member of the city management of the Heimatschutz Graz , an organization that was already oriented towards National Socialism at the time.

Activity in the time of National Socialism

In 1924 Begusch joined the NSDAP . In the same year he ran for first place on the NSDAP list for the municipal council election in Graz. He was a member of the SS from 1933 (membership number 309.506) and rose to SS-Sturmbannführer on March 12, 1938 . From March 1938 to October 1939 he was SD leader in the Graz section.

In Berlin , Begusch took part in the planning of the T4 campaign and belonged to the group of T4 experts from September 2, 1940 to July 4, 1941 . He was significantly involved in the T4 campaign in Styria. He led with Ernst Sorger also called on-site selections in smaller institutions by, where without the proposed notification procedure patient directly in the killing institution Hartheim were transferred. Attempts were made to deceive the relatives of the victims with falsified letters and death certificates.

Begusch died in January 1944 during an operation of the consequences of a ruptured appendix .

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  1. ↑ Styrian "Provincial Insane Sanatorium and Care Institution" Feldhof
  2. ↑ Günter Cerwinka: "You (the 'clericals') are not even on our point of view on the Jewish question". "Jews" - and "clerical issues" in the convention protocols of the Graz fraternity Allemannia 1919/20 (PDF; 132 kB), Graz 2006, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Eberhard Gabriel and Wolfgang Neugebauer: From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 320599325X , p. 415.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Eberhard Gabriel and Wolfgang Neugebauer: From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, p. 327.
  5. ↑ Günter Cerwinka: "You (the 'clericals') are not even on our point of view on the Jewish question". “Jews” - and “clerical issues” in the convention protocols of the Graz fraternity Allemannia 1919/20 (PDF; 132 kB), Graz 2006, p. 4ff.
  6. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 36.
  7. ^ Directory of SS members
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Freidl et al. (Ed.): Medicine and National Socialism in Styria. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck: 2001, ISBN 3706515652 .
personal data
SURNAME Begusch, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg on the Drau
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1944
Place of death Graz