Reiner Olzscha

Reiner Olzscha (born July 26, 1912 , † 1947 ) was a German hygienist and officer.

Life

In 1939, Olzscha worked as the second hygienist within the resettlement campaigns for ethnic Germans and was head of the “Hygiene and Statistics” department at the representative of the Reich Health Leader . He was employed as a medical advisor and SS-Obersturmbannführer in Office D 3 of the SS main office. During the Second World War he was head of the " Turkestan Working Group ", which had been implemented by the Reich Security Main Office within the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), and as SS-Hauptsturmführer from September to October 1944 commanded the East Turkish Arms Association of the SS.

Olzscha worked as an assistant at the "Foreign University" of the University of Berlin.

Works

• The epidemiology and epidemiography of cholera in Russia , 1940
• Georg Cleinow : Turkestan. The Political, Historical and Economic Problems of Central Asia , revised and supplemented by Olzscha in 1942.
• The epidemiology and epidemiography of cholera in Asiatic Russia and the Caucasus , 1944.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maria Fiebrandt: Selection for the settler society. The inclusion of ethnic Germans in the Nazi genetic health policy in the context of resettlements 1939–1945 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 55). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-36967-8 , p. 166. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
2. ↑ https://paolosilv.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/man-who-advised/
3. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 267.
4. ↑ Gordon Williamson: The Waffen-SS (4): 24. to 38. Divisions, & Volunteer Legions , p. 41. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
5. ^ Sebastian Cwiklinski: Volga Tatars in Germany during World War II: German Ostpolitik and Tatar Nationalism , Schwarz, 2002, p. 28. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).