Raimund Discher

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Raimund Discher (born August 29, 1923 , † March 1968 in or near Huế , Vietnam ) was a German medic.

Career

Discher studied medicine at the University of Freiburg until 1957 and passed the specialist examination for internal medicine. In 1962 he followed the Freiburg pediatric professor Horst-Günther Krainick as part of an educational aid program of the German government to the recently founded medical faculty of the university in the South Vietnamese city of Huế .

During the Tet offensive of the Viet Cong and the conquest of the city, Discher was kidnapped on February 5, 1968, together with Krainick, his wife Elisabeth and the doctor Alois Alteköster . All efforts, including those of Caritas President Georg Hüssler , to help the missing people were unsuccessful. On April 3, 1968, the German embassy in Saigon announced that the bodies of the four Germans had been found in a mass grave. Shots in the neck and the head were given as the cause of death. On April 18, 1968, Discher was buried together with the Krainick couple in Freiburg. Their fate is set out in several scientific books on the history of the Tet Offensive. See: Hué massacre

Honors

literature

Web links

  • [1] Report in the Badische Zeitung
  • [2] Report in the newspaper Die Welt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  2. ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011
  3. ↑ Example historiography
  4. ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011, p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Discher, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1923
DATE OF DEATH around March 20, 1968
Place of death Hué Vietnam