Oskar Kauffmann

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Oskar Kauffmann (born August 13, 1898 in Trieste ; † May 1955 ) was an Austrian psychiatrist , SS leader and medical officer.

Life

Kauffmann studied after completing their academic medicine and received his doctorate in 1921 at the University of Graz Dr. med. Kauffmann then worked as an assistant doctor at the Graz Neurological Clinic until 1927 and then worked as a psychiatrist in Klagenfurt and Villach until 1934. The medical professional politician Kauffmann was a member of the NSDAP, illegal in Austria, from 1931 ( membership number 781.083). Kauffmann held the office of deputy mayor of Villach from 1932 to 1934 as a city councilor. From July 1933 to September 1937, Kauffmann was an illegal Gauärzteführer and Gauobmann of the NS-Ärztebund in Carinthia . From September 1937 to July 1938 Kauffmann was a doctor's guide for Austria. From 1934 to 1941 Kauffmann was, with one interruption, chief physician at the Villachs health insurance company. The background for the interruption of his employment with the Villachs health insurance company was his National Socialist activities. In addition, because of this, he later lost his license to operate in Austria. After the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich in March 1938, Kauffmann in Carinthia was head of the district health office in Carinthia from July 1938 as a district doctor and was in charge of the local medical association.

During the Second World War , Kauffmann was from 1940 to 1941, with the rank of government director, department head for health and people care at the Reichsstatthalter in Carinthia. Kauffmann moved to the Reich Ministry of the Interior in 1941 , where he later held the rank of ministerial director. In personal union in 1942 Kauffmann was appointed special representative for the planning of Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti and his representative in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. As one of Conti's closest confidants, Kauffmann held these two functions until the end of the war in May 1945.

Kauffmann, who became a member of the SS in 1942 (SS-No. 428.661), rose to become SS-Standartenführer in the SS at the end of January 1944 .

At or after the war Kauffmann fell into Allied internment . Kauffmann then worked as a specialist in Linz and Wiener Neustadt . In January 1954, Kauffmann was appointed director of the regional hospital in Klagenfurt and in June 1954 president of the medical association in Klagenfurt.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II, Böhlau. Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-205-99325-X . (P. 415)
  • Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56719-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II, Vienna 2002, p. 415.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 300.
  3. ↑ a b Peter Pirker , Lisa Rettl : " One of us ( Memento from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )", in: Datum - Seiten der Zeit , Edition 11/2010.
  4. ↑ Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 , Munich 2003, p. 116
  5. ↑ Oskar Kauffmann on www.dws-xip.pl
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychiatrist and Nazi medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH May 1955