Siegfried Schwela

Siegfried Schwela (born May 3, 1905 in Cottbus , † May 10, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was German SS-Hauptsturmführer and medical officer in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Siegfried Schwela, son of the Sorbian pastor and co-founder of Domowina Bogumił Šwjela , studied medicine and received his doctorate at Heidelberg University in 1934 . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1929 ( membership number 169.110) and of the SS since 1932 (SS number 33.800).

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Schwela worked for the Central Immigration Office in Lodz from October 1939 . In August 1941 he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp as a camp doctor . Afterwards Schwela worked for a few months as the chief camp doctor in the Stutthof concentration camp . From March 21, 1942 to May 10, 1942, he served as a medical officer in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the spring of 1942 he fell ill with typhus and died of the consequences of this disease on May 10, 1942.

literature

Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Five volumes. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, ISBN 83-85047-76-X (I. Structure and structure of the camp; II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death; III. Extermination; IV. Resistance; V epilogue ) .
Thomas Grotum: The digital archive - construction and evaluation of a database on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37481-1 .
Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Siegfried Schwela in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Siegfried Schwela: About the treatment of painful diseases of the musculoskeletal system using histamine iontophoresis. OO 1934 (dissertation, Heidelberg University, October 2, 1934; catalog card , Basel University Library ).
↑ ^a ^b Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (ed.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Volume I: Structure and Structure of the Camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim 1999, p. 285.
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 574.

personal data
SURNAME	Schwela, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS medical officer at Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	cottbus
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1942
Place of death	Auschwitz

[1] Siegfried Schwela: About the treatment of painful diseases of the musculoskeletal system using histamine iontophoresis. OO 1934 (dissertation, Heidelberg University, October 2, 1934; catalog card , Basel University Library ).

[Lasik285-2] Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz. In: Wacław Długoborski, Franciszek Piper (ed.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Volume I: Structure and Structure of the Camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim 1999, p. 285.

[Klee574-3] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 574.