Oskar Hock

Oskar Hock (born January 31, 1898 in Babenhausen , † June 24, 1976 in Leverkusen ) was a German doctor, SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS and the police, chief doctor of the concentration camps and chief of the medical services of the regulatory police .

Family, school and the First World War

As the son of the doctor Valentin Hock and his wife Anna Mantel, he attended high school and obtained his Abitur. On December 13, 1916, he joined the radio service of a replacement department in Munich. From March 1917 he served as a radio operator in the radio operator's department 1050 of a division and until the end of the war in the infantry regiment 2. As a non-commissioned officer, he was released from military service in January 1919.

Freikorps, studies, country doctor

From April 20 to May 24, 1919 he took part in fighting as a member of the Goetel Freikorps ( Passau ) in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . He then studied medicine at the universities of Erlangen , Gießen and Würzburg . He was a member of the Corps Franconia Würzburg (1919) and Bavaria Erlangen (1920). In 1923 he finished his studies with the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. med. This was followed by a two-year activity at the municipal hospital in Ludwigshafen as an intern and assistant doctor. Then he went to Regen in the Bavarian Forest . There he worked as a country doctor and on the side as a doctor for the Reichsbahn .

Functionary of the NSDAP and the Nazi medical association

His political stance as a National Socialist was already established in 1928 when he joined the NSDAP as member no. 97.862 and the SA on September 1st . In Regen he headed the local branch of the NSDAP from 1928 to August 1934. In 1929 he was one of the founders of the National Socialist German Medical Association . For the NSDAP he took over the office of a city council in Regen and from May 1933 he became the city's second mayor.

Health Department Lindau and Hereditary Health Court

From August 1, 1934, he was appointed district doctor for Lindau . A year later he took over the management of the district office for public health in Lindau. At the Hereditary Health Court in Kempten , he also worked as an assessor, where he had to decide on applications for sterilization in accordance with the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . In August 1935 he was appointed head of the Lindau health department, where he also took over the management of administrative office 5 at the public health department.

Member of the SS and the SS medical service

Finding himself in the SS an embossed less of the bureaucracy work promised in 1936 he was a member of the SS in August (SS no. 276822). Already in August 1936 he was transferred to the medical unit of the SS-Einsatzstruppe (SSVT) Munich- Dachau . After that he was transferred to Berlin on February 1, 1937, to the SS medical staff of the SSVT. At the same time he became deputy commander of the medical department of the SSVT Friedrich Dermietzel and head of the SS medical school. From August 1, 1938, he was on the staff of the medical department of the SSVT von Dermietzel. A month later he was assigned to the medical department of the SSVT in Vienna . There he also worked as a troop doctor for the SS-Standarte Wien with the I. Sturmbann of the SS-Standarte “Der Führer”. Hock was not satisfied with this transfer and felt disadvantaged.

Quarrels in the SS

The Reichsarzt SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz also intervened and defended Dermietzel's attitude towards Hock. Grawitz even incriminated Hock because he was obviously overwhelmed as the head of the Vienna medical department of the SS barracked there (Hock had been appointed leader of the medical team and on-site doctor of SSVT Vienna on December 1). At the beginning of October, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and the inspector of the concentration camps Theodor Eicke agreed that Hock should be used as head of the field hospital of the SS Totenkopf Division . On the other hand, Hock wrote to the SS Personnel Main Office on October 12, 1938 . Himmler was informed of this complaint with the recommendation to dismiss Hock as a troublemaker from the SSVT and the General SS, which Hock learned in writing from Himmler on October 19, 1938. Now Hock was remorseful towards Grawitz, and with the consent of Himmler, Hock was re-admitted to the SS on January 13, 1940 and assigned to the staff of the Reichsarzt SS in Berlin . From January 16 to April 15, 1940, Hock took over the position of chief doctor of the inspection of the concentration camps in Oranienburg . Werner Kirchert then took over this position, while Hock was transferred to the general inspection of the reinforced SSVT-Totenkopfstandarten, which was also located in Oranienburg.

Division doctor in Russia

On August 15, 1940, Hock was transferred to the medical inspection of the Waffen-SS in the command office of the Waffen-SS (Office I) at the SS Leadership Main Office . On February 15, 1941, he was appointed Division Doctor of the SS Totenkopf Division. In this division he took part in the German-Soviet War until his recall on June 21, 1943 . He wrote a report for the United States Army in 1947 about his experience of being wounded under the conditions of war in the Soviet Union in 1941 and 1942 . When the doctor Hermann Eckert (born May 5, 1911 in Munich) of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment wrote a report on the poor state of health due to poor nutrition in early 1942, Hock supported this point of view. According to Hock, many soldiers therefore died of infections and weak circulatory systems . When Himmler learned of this, he forbade such reports, the truisms would contain.

Chief in the medical services of the regulatory police

On June 21, 1943, Hock was recalled and assigned to the Chief of Medical Services of the Waffen SS in Office Group D in the SS leadership office. Following the intercession of Karl Gebhardt , he took over the post of Head of Sanitary Services in the Ordnungspolizei on September 1, 1943 , where he was also Head of Medical Services III in the Ordnungspolizei until April 10, 1944. In January 1944, Hock was seriously ill with liver inflammation and, as a result, jaundice , so that the general doctor Friedrich Becker had to represent him . From April onwards, Hock spent a few months of his service at the medical office of the Waffen-SS, before he became corps doctor of the XIII on August 23, 1944 . SS Army Corps was appointed. From November 15, 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945, he was still employed as a corps doctor with the II SS Panzer Corps .

post war period

Hock was not charged either during the Nuremberg trials or in any other post-war German court . In the Nuremberg medical process , he gave exonerating statements for Karl Gebhardt and the head of the SS medical services Karl Genzken . His testimony of February 11, 1947 was documented. During his internment in the US camp in Garmisch , he wrote down his experiences in Russia, which were printed in 1947. In a statement dated January 17, 1947, he alleged that he had been appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Ordnungspolizei against his will , and that he would have been released from this office by his application. Rather, it is correct that his liver disease led to the end of this office, as Marco Pukrop was able to show.

Condemnation

On 10 May 1948 Hock became a fine of 10,000 Reichsmarks from the 14th Chamber of the spell Court sentenced Hiddensen because he a member of a criminal organization had been. This sentence was suspended, however, as it was compensated for with three years of internment from 1945 to 1948. After several attempts to overturn this conviction, a committee for denazification in Düsseldorf acquitted him as a Category V exonerate of having belonged to the corps of political leaders of the Nazi regime.

In November 1958, he applied to the main trustee for the assets of the NSDAP to leave the balance of 1,000 DM at the Stadtsparkasse in Berlin. He has been working as a resident doctor in Leverkusen since 1950 and is fully licensed by the health insurance companies. In 1960, according to new investigations, he was given the credit. At the end of 1958 he protested against new investigations and presented himself as a victim because his family had been driven from their apartment in Berlin and his specialist books and a concert grand were taken from him. As a defamed person, he would not have had the opportunity to exercise his rights after imprisonment, as these new investigations would show.

Ranks and positions

• January 1919 NCO and aspiring officer
• January 1928 Senior Physician in the Reserve
• November 1930 SA-Sanitäts-Sturmbannführer in SA-Sturmbann V / 16 in the SA group Mittelland
• July 1932 SA-Sanitäts-Sturmbannarzt in SA-Sturmbann V / 16 in the SA-Group Hochland
• April 1934 SA-Sanitäts-Obersturmbannführer
• July 1932 I. Sturmbannarzt of Sturmbann III of SA Standard 20 in Lindau on Lake Constance
• August 1936 SS-Sturmbannführer
• September 1936 full-time SS doctor
• November 1936 SS medical officer and chief physician in the SS military hospital in Munich-Dachau
• February 1937 Deputy Leader of the Sanitary Department of the SS Disposal Troop and Leader of the Sanitary Squadron of the SSVT Berlin
• September 1937 SS-Obersturmbannführer
• August 1938 SS medical doctor
• September 1938 Troop doctor of I. Sturmbann of the SS standard "Der Führer" in Vienna
• December 1938 Appointment as leader of the medical team and medical officer of the SSVT in Vienna
• October 1939, released from the SS
• January 1940 re-entry into the SS with the previous rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer
• January 1941 promotion to SS-Standartenführer
• November 1942 Promotion to SS-Oberführer of the Waffen-SS
• September 1943 Promotion to SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police and Waffen-SS

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Bavarian Military Merit Cross III. Class with crown and swords
• Wound badge in black
• Cross of honor for front fighters
• Gold medal of the NSDAP
• Service award of the NSDAP in bronze
• Medal "Winter Battle in the East 1941/42"
• Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd class
• Iron Cross 1st Class
• War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords
• War Merit Cross 1st Class without swords

Fonts

• Experience with lumbar anesthesia at the Würzburg Women's Clinic , Würzburg 1924.
• Experiences in the medical service of a motorized SS Division in 1941/42 in Russia , (In the Demjansk pocket; comments by a division surgeon on medical problems) United States Army, Europe, Historical Division - Foreign Military Studies Branch, 1947 (quoted in : World War II German military studies 1, Part I., introduction & guide, New York 1979).

See also

• List of SS brigade leaders

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Schulz et al., Die Generale der Waffen-SS and the Police , Volume 2, Bissendorf 2005, pp. 290–294.
2. ↑ ^{a b} nuremberg.law.harvard.edu: Affidavit ( memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Text of the statement by Oskar Hock from February 11, 1947 in Nuremberg 
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 139 , 716; 20 , 490
4. ↑ Dissertation: Experiences with lumbar anesthesia at the Würzburg Women's Clinic
5. ↑ Marco Pukrop, Dr. med. Oskar Hock - "Senior Doctor" of the Concentration Camps , in: Journal for History Science, No. 10, 2009, pp. 794–810.
6. ↑ Marco Pukrop, ibid, p. 797.
7. ↑ Andreas Schulz, ibid, p. 292.
8. ↑ In a letter of November 17, 1938 to Heinrich Himmler, he complained about Dermietzel and the limited authority in Vienna. Dermietzel responded with a letter dated December 1, 1938 to the head of the SS personnel chancellery, accusing Hock of "permanent resistance". For more details see: Marco Pukrop, ibid, p. 798
9. ↑ Andreas Schulz, ibid, p. 293.
10. ↑ Himmler was probably particularly upset about a statement in Eckert's report, who wrote of states of exhaustion that he only knew from my KL [concentration camp] work with anti-social people , see: Marco Pukrop, ibid. P. 803. Himmler did not, however, undertake any Measures to deal with the nutritional status of the SS men.
11. ↑ Marco Pukrop, ibid, p. 806.