Oskar Gundermann

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Oskar Gundermann (* 6. July 1894 in Kirchwerder near Hamburg , † 3. September 1968 in Hannover ) is a German was physicians who during the time of National Socialism health official in the German-occupied Wartheland was and in the Federal Republic of Germany as a Medical Officer in the Lower Saxony government operates has been.

Life

After graduating from high school, Gundermann studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen, Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Leipzig from 1914 . After passing the state examination in Leipzig in 1924, he was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate and approved in Dresden . As a result of his medical internship and the time as an assistant doctor, he headed the Berlin children's sanatorium in Wyk auf Föhr from 1925 to 1928 . In 1928 he passed the medical examination and worked briefly from 1928 to 1929 for the government in Merseburg . He then worked as a medical officer and medical advisor in Herzberg (Elster) and from 1935 in the same function in Naumburg (Saale) .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists, Gundermann joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 ( membership number 2.279.435). He belonged to the National Socialist Medical Association and worked as a district manager at the Office for Public Health and as a consultant in the Schweidnitz district for the NS organization Kraft durch Freude .

After the German occupation of Poland in December 1939, he became the first medical director in the government in Kalisch and Litzmannstadt . From June 1940 to early 1945 he led in Poznan , first provisionally, then the full-time Medizinalabteilung with the authority of the Reich Governor Arthur Greiser , where he was in charge of the health organization in Wartheland. He also acted as a department head in the district self-administration. In these functions he represented a national socialist politics .

After the end of the Second World War , he issued an affidavit in defense of Kurt Blome, who was accused in the Nuremberg medical trial . From 1947 he was a lecturer at the Academy for State Medicine in Hamburg. In 1950 he joined the Lower Saxony state service as a government and medical councilor and from 1951 worked in the hospital department of the Lower Saxony Ministry for displaced persons. From 1958 until his retirement in 1960 he headed the health department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, most recently as ministerial director.

Gundermann was questioned as part of the investigation into the complex of institutional killings and murders of Poles suffering from tuberculosis in the Wartheland. He denied having been involved in these crimes.

Fonts (selection)

  • Inspection by the health department . Bielefeld 1949; 2nd edition 1958
  • Floor plan solutions for health authorities . 2, changed edition Bielefeld 1950
  • The doctor in the health department . Bielefeld 1958

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Index tape for the microfiche edition . On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000, p. 99
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 210f.
personal data
SURNAME Gundermann, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchwerder near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1968
Place of death Hanover