Otto Adam (medic)

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Otto Adam (born August 28, 1903 in Schumburg , † September 30, 1967 in Hammelburg ) was a Sudeten German SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Adam was the son of a teacher. From 1922 to 1928 he studied medicine at the German University in Prague . On January 14, 1928 he received his license to practice medicine. He then worked in the surgical assistant doctor position at the University Clinic in Prague . From 1930 he worked as a general practitioner in Bilin . On November 14, 1938 he became a member of the General SS (No. 347 121). Since 1940 he has been employed at the Central Immigration Office in Poznan . From November 1940 he took part in the 8th SS Regiment in the Russian campaign. From November 28, 1943, he was deployed on the Eastern Front as a troop doctor in the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Nordland" and had a serious accident there in January 1944 in a train accident. On September 20, 1944 he was transferred to Office Group D III. Initially a few days he began his service in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a troop doctor for the SS guards. He then worked in the same position in the Dachau concentration camp until the end of October 1944 . From October 1944 he worked again as an SS camp doctor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On February 5, 1945 he was transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , where he remained until the evacuation in April 1945. On January 7, 1948, he was released from internment. Then he practiced as a doctor in Hammelburg. Adam was acquitted by the Münster district court on February 19, 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Marco Pukrop: SS medics between camp duty and front duty. The staffing of the medical department in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945. Hannover 2015, Dissertation University of Hannover, doi : 10.15488 / 8553 , p. 550.
  2. ↑ Günter Morsch, Alfred Reckendrees: Liberation Sachsenhausen 1945 . Hentrich, 1996, ISBN 978-3-89468-213-2 , p. 127.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims . 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 , p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Schumburg
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1967
Place of death Hammelburg