Reichsarzt SS

Reichsarzt SS was a department of the SS . She was subordinate to the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . Himmler was directly subordinate to Adolf Hitler and responsible only to him.

For Reichsarzt SS was Ernst-Robert Grawitz appointed by Heinrich Himmler 1935th With this position, Grawitz was now the highest medical authority of the SS, with regard to all medical matters of all SS units. Grawitz initially headed the SS Medical Office , a service that was founded in 1931 and quickly expanded. Since the SS controlled the concentration camps , Grawitz, as Reichsarzt SS, was responsible for the SS doctors and the medical events in the concentration camps . The SS medical service was transferred to Ernst-Robert Grawitz in 1936. Office III was subordinate to him , and Enno Lolling was the direct head of the department . In terms of discipline, the concentration camps were under the administration of SS Oswald Pohl .

Cooperation between Reichsführer SS and Reichsarzt SS

For example, in 1943 Grawitz asked Himmler to make eight concentration camp inmates available for experiments with infectious hepatitis . Himmler replied in writing and made eight Jews from Auschwitz available. The Reichsarzt SS was the contact point for other Nazi doctors from various Nazi research institutions. He called in concentration camp inmates for medical experiments . Himmler hired him to coordinate experiments and received regular written reports. Grawitz and Himmler also discussed the proposal to use gas chambers to kill concentration camp prisoners.

When Himmler's title was changed to Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police , the Reichsarzt SS and Police department was also established.

The staff of the Reichsarzt SS included:

• Karl Gebhardt , senior clinician at the Reichsarzt SS, Himmler's personal physician
• Joachim Mrugowsky , chief hygienist at the Reichsarzt SS
• Helmut Poppendick , head of the personal office on the staff of the Reichsarzt SS.
• SS-Hauptsturmführer Ferdinand Berning , adjutant of the Reichsarzt SS

See also

• Organizational structure of the SS
• Heinrich Schmitz : Grawitz tested him for suitability as a camp doctor at the Flossenbürg concentration camp
• Carl Blumenreuter , first- aid officer
• Carl Oskar Klipp , deputy Reich doctor of the Hitler Youth
• Research Foundation German Ahnenerbe , ( Wolfram Sievers )
• Reichsforschungsrat : Head of division for inheritance and race maintenance in the Reichsforschungsrat was Kurt Blome

literature

• Stanislav Zámečník: (Ed. Comité International de Dachau): That was Dachau. Luxembourg, 2002, ISBN 2-87996-948-4 .

Footnotes

1. ^ Letter from Grawitz on June 1, 1943, In: Nürnberger Documents Doc. NO 10.
2. ^ Letter from Himmler dated June 16, 1943. In: Nürnberger Documents, Doc.NO 11.
3. ^ Stanislav Zámečník: That was Dachau. Luxembourg 2002, p. 284.