Otto Blaschke

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Otto Blaschke (born September 24, 1908 in Obernitz , district of Brüx , † October 7, 1982 in Asperg ) was a Sudeten German concentration camp doctor and SS-Obersturmführer .

Life

After studying medicine in Prague in 1936, Blaschke became a Dr. med. PhD . After the annexation of the Sudetenland as a result of the Munich Agreement , he joined the General SS (SS No. 391.852) in October 1938 and the NSDAP in November 1938 . During the Second World War , he joined the Waffen-SS at the beginning of October 1940 and was subsequently a doctor in concentration camps for almost two years. From the beginning of December 1940 he was a camp doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp for a year . He was then transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp on December 5, 1941 and from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in February 1942 , where he was employed as a camp doctor in the men's camp. In May 1942 he moved to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and from there in July 1942 to Mauthausen concentration camp . From November 1942 until the end of the war in May 1945 he was a troop doctor with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . With the Waffen-SS he reached the rank of Obersturmführer in 1942.

In the post-war period, Blaschke worked from 1948 "in the medicinal products industry as a research assistant". From 1956 he practiced as a doctor in Eglosheim . In the course of the investigation into the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt , he was interrogated and responded to an incriminating testimony: "If the witness says that I ran around in the camp looking for Muslims whose number I wrote down in order to later have them liquidated, then this does not correspond to the facts. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 51
  2. ↑ Booklets of Auschwitz , Volume 20, State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau 1997, p. 304
  3. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz death books . Volume 1: Reports. 1995, p. 269
  4. ^ Statement by Otto Blaschke during the interrogations about the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Blaschke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German concentration camp doctor and SS-Obersturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Obernitz
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1982
Place of death Asperg