Richard Trommer

Richard Trommer (according to some sources Richard Hans Trommer ; * July 16, 1910 in Münnerstadt , according to another source April 19, 1911 ; † missing since 1945, declared dead on November 21, 1950) was a German concentration camp doctor and Hauptsturmführer of the SS .

Trommer was a member of the NSDAP from July 1, 1929 to September 1931 (reasons for leaving or dismissing unclear) and again from May 1, 1933 . In 1936 he passed his state examination in medicine . He worked as a camp doctor at least in 1941 in Flossenbürg , 1942–1943 in Neuengamme and 1943–1945 in Ravensbrück near Fürstenberg / Havel .

Trommer has been missing since 1945. A suicide is suspected in May 1945. He was declared dead on November 21, 1950 by the Bremerhaven District Court.

At that time doctors working with him in Ravensbrück, u. a. Rolf Rosenthal , Percy Treite , Benno Orendi , Gerhard Schiedlausky , Walter Sonntag were convicted in Hamburg ( Ravensbrück trials ) and at the Nuremberg doctors trial ( Fritz Fischer , Karl Gebhardt , Herta Oberheuser ).

literature

• Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 pp. 89ff., 135, 150, 153ff., 200, 208
• Helga Schwarz, Gerda Szepansky, Brandenburg State Center for Political Education in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (eds.): ... and yet flowers were in bloom: Ravensbrück women's concentration camp; Documents, reports, poems and drawings from everyday life in the camp 1939–1945 . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-932502-25-6 (contains reports from Ravensbrück with impressions about Trommer)