Otto Wolter-Pecksen

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Karl Wilhelm Otto Wolter-Pecksen [later also written Wolter-Peeksen] (born April 17, 1882 in Lüneburg , † March 17, 1954 in Moringen ) was a German concentration camp doctor in the Moringen concentration camp and SS-Sturmbannführer (1943).

Life

Wolter Pecksen, whose father was an architect, graduated from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , a medical school , which he in 1906 with the promotion of Dr. med. finished. In the same year he received his license to practice medicine . Wolter-Pecksen was married from 1908 and the couple had two children. In 1908 he settled as a doctor in Moringen and at the same time became a contract doctor in the Moringer Provinzialwerkhaus to accommodate social fringe groups. During the First World War Wolter-Pecksen was used as a battalion and regimental doctor. After the war he became a member of the German People's Party .

In mid-January 1923, Wolter-Pecksen founded the Moringer local group of the NSDAP . According to his own statements, however, he did not join the party until 1925, the SA in 1931. There he was Sturmbannarzt and from 1942 Sturmbannführer.

After a concentration camp for men was set up in the Landeswerkhaus in Moringen in April 1933, Wolter-Pecksen took over the post of camp doctor . The men's concentration camp existed until November 1933. From October 1933 to March 1938 Wolter-Pecksen was also a camp doctor in the local women's concentration camp and then from June 1940 a doctor in the youth concentration camp.

Wolter-Pecksen was the district commissioner of the Racial Politics Office and in this function advocated compulsory sterilization according to the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . Nevertheless, Wolter-Pecksen is characterized ambiguously in reports by survivors. According to his medical reports, female prisoners are said to have been released and opponents of the Nazi regime and Jewish women received the same medical treatment from him as party friends. As a camp doctor, he is also said to have campaigned for additional food rations for underage prisoners. On the other hand, he is portrayed by survivors of the Moringen concentration camp as aggressive and bossy.

In March 1943 he switched from the SA to the SS and was later employed in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

After the end of the war, Wolter-Pecksen was denazified and questioned as part of the investigation into former members of the camp staff. Wolter-Pecksen also worked as a doctor in Moringen after 1945, where he died in 1954.

His son Releff Wolter-Peeksen was a farmer in Hoya after 1945 , district chairman of the FDP and the employers' association and from 1963 to 1967 a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 687.
  • Hans Hesse: The Moringen Women's Concentration Camp 1933–1938 . Edition Temmen, Göttingen 2000 ISBN 3-86108-724-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Hans Hesse: The Moringen women's concentration camp 1933–1938. Göttingen 2000, p. 187 f.
  2. ↑ a b Silke Scholz: Dr. Wolter - Pecksen - camp doctor in Moringen. In: Circular letter of the camp community and memorial site KZ Moringen eV Documents No. 19, Moringen 2000 ( PDF; 3.2 MB ), p. 16.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 687.
  4. ↑ Hans Hesse: The Moringen Women's Concentration Camp 1933–1938. Göttingen 2000, p. 103.
  5. ↑ Hans Hesse: The Moringen Women's Concentration Camp 1933–1938. Göttingen 2000, p. 189.
personal data
SURNAME Wolter-Pecksen, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolter-Pecksen, Karl Wilhelm Otto; Wolter-Peeksen, Karl Wilhelm Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp doctor and SS Sturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1954
Place of death Moringen