Oskar Dienstbach

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Oskar Dienstbach (born September 30, 1910 in Usingen ; †  October 18, 1945 ) was a German doctor and SS leader . He was deployed as a camp and site doctor in several concentration camps .

Life

Oskar Dienstbach, who had a doctorate in medicine, was a member of the NSDAP from the beginning of May 1933 ( membership number 2.400.092) and of the SS from mid-June 1933 (SS number 101.741). After the outbreak of World War II , Dienstbach was a member of the Wehrmacht from November 1939 to April 1940 and then switched to the Waffen SS . Dienstbach was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS in 1943 .

Dienstbach was employed as a camp doctor in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 and in Mauthausen concentration camp from the end of January 1941 . From the beginning of May 1941 he acted as a medical officer in the Flossenbürg concentration camp and in the same position from September 30, 1941 to March 2, 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp . He was then employed with SS Panzer Reconnaissance Department 1 . After the end of the war, Dienstbach died on October 18, 1945 in captivity.

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, five volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - living conditions, 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 .
  • Thomas Grotum: The digital archive - construction and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp , 2004, Campus, ISBN 3593374811 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Construction and structure of the camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 285.
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 109.
  3. ↑ Thomas Grotum: The digital archive - construction and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp , 2004, p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Dienstbach, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Usingen
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1945