Siegfried Handloser

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Doctor General Siegfried Handloser (August 1942).

Siegfried Handloser (born March 25, 1885 in Konstanz , † July 3, 1954 in Munich ) was chief of the Wehrmacht medical services with the rank of chief medical officer . At the Nuremberg Doctors Trial , he was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity .

Life

Handloser was born the son of the music director Konstantin and his wife Anna Maria. In 1903 he began to study medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for military medical education and became active in the Pépinière-Corps Franconia Berlin . After taking the medical state examination in 1910, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

This was followed by a time at the Giessen University Hospital and at a military hospital . From 1928 to 1932 he was a consultant in the Army Medical Inspection of the Reichswehr Ministry , then corps and military district doctor V in Stuttgart as well as General Staff and Army Group Doctor 3 in Dresden (1935-1938), and then in Vienna at Army Group Command 3 (1938) Act. In 1939 Handlose became honorary professor of military medicine in Vienna, and in 1943 in Berlin.

From June 1942 he held the newly established position of head of the Wehrmacht medical services in the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) . He was thus primarily responsible for the entire medical system of the Wehrmacht and therefore also for all medical crimes that were committed in the context of the Wehrmacht medical services, especially against prisoners of war .

Furthermore, Handlos was the initiator of numerous measures for forced prostitution for women in the occupied countries. In Berlin he planned prostitution control on a European level, which was first implemented in detail in occupied France . In January 1943, their cornerstones were laid down for the entire armed forces. The investigation by Insa Meinen documents this activity and its realization by Heinrich Löhe in detail (see Wehrmacht brothel ).

After 1945

Siegfried Handloser as Defendant in the Nuremberg Medical Trial (November 1946)

After being a prisoner of war from December 9, 1946 to July 19, 1947 , he was charged at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment .

Handloser's defense tried to prevent a confirmation of the judgment on the grounds that the human experiments (frostbite, sulfonamide administration and typhus infection experiments) were carried out exclusively in concentration camps and not by members of the Wehrmacht. The verdict, however, was valid because Handloser, as head of the Wehrmacht medical services, was not only subordinate to the chiefs of the medical services of the army , air force and navy , but also to the Reich doctor SS and police Ernst-Robert Grawitz , so that Handloser's supervisory area was also subject to all SS- Physicians responsible for human experiments extended.

On January 31, 1951, the sentence was commuted to 20 years imprisonment by the US High Commissioner John J. McCloy . Handloser was later released early from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison for health reasons and because of a complicated operation that had become necessary . Handloser finally died of cancer on July 3, 1954 in the University Hospital of Munich .

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Handloser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 60/399
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Specific treatment of typhus abdominalis
  3. ↑ Karsten Linne (Hrsg.): The Nürnberger Ärzteprocess 1946/47: indexing volume for the microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus to the history of the process and short biographies of those involved in the process . Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 3-11-096299-3 , p. 65.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1930, p. 100
  5. ↑ tracesofwar.com
personal data
SURNAME Handloser, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Army Medical Inspector and Head of the Wehrmacht Medical Services
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1954
Place of death Munich