Siegfried Liebau

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Siegfried Liebau (born January 12, 1911 in Schochwitz ; † April 20, 1995 ) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer , anthropologist and medic.

Life

Liebau was the son of a pastor and distantly related to Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer . After completing his school career, he completed a degree in medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation called: About hemangiomas of the ear to the Dr. med. In the early 1930s, Liebau worked with his brother Gerhard under their cousin Ernst-Robert Grawitz at the Westend hospital in Berlin. In the mid-1930s, Libau married Ingeborg von Ekesparre, whom he had met through Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer.

Liebau became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4.158.861) and SS (SS number 276.969), where he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer at the end of January 1945. After joining the SS in 1936, he was a member of the SS disposal force and was employed as an assistant doctor in surgery at the SS military hospital in Berlin. In 1938 Liebau switched to the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). From November 1938 Liebau was an adjutant at the SS Medical Academy in Berlin. In 1940 Liebau published an article in the journal Der Erbarzt , whose editor was Verschuer, under the title: The operative treatment of male sterility . Between May 1940 and October 25, 1942 Liebau worked as a personnel officer and head of department at the medical office of the Waffen-SS in Berlin. His superior there was Karl Genzken .

Between the beginning of December 1942 and October 1943 Liebau was Verschuer's research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A) in Berlin-Dahlem . Liebau was present in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the first months of 1943 . There he photographed members of a Sinti family who had heterochrome eyes for Verschuer's assistant Karin Magnussen . Liebau was also involved in twin research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After his work in the KWI-A, Liebau was briefly deployed during the German-Soviet War and then as a senior medical officer with the Higher SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik in the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone . Towards the end of the war his arm had to be amputated.

After the end of the war, Liebau was in Allied internment detention in Nuremberg . After his release, Liebau worked as a representative for homeopathic preparations and opened a homeopathic practice in Hanover .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Carola Sachse (Ed.): The connection to Auschwitz. Life sciences and human experiments at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. Documentation of a symposium . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003 (= History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, Volume 6), ISBN 3-89244-699-7 .
  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-799-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 256
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 256
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 371
  4. ↑ a b Carola Sachse (ed.): The connection to Auschwitz. Life sciences and human experiments at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. Documentation of a symposium , Göttingen 2003, p. 226
  5. ↑ Siegfried Liebau at www.dws-xip.pl
  6. ↑ Anahid S. Rickmann: "Rassenpflege im Völkischen Staat": On the relationship of racial hygiene to National Socialist politics, dissertation, Bonn 202, p. 303 (pdf; 1.9 MB)
  7. ↑ a b Carola Sachse (ed.): The connection to Auschwitz. Life sciences and human experiments at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. Documentation of a symposium , Göttingen 2003, p. 256
  8. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 476
  9. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 480
personal data
SURNAME Liebau, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS doctor and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schochwitz
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1995