Sigbert Ramsauer

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Sigbert Ramsauer (born October 19, 1909 in Klagenfurt ; † June 13, 1991 ibid) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in the Dachau , Mauthausen and Loibl concentration camps .

biography

Ramsauer enrolled at the University of Innsbruck in the winter semester of 1929 and studied medicine there until 1935, where he joined the university choir of Innsbruck students in the same year , but was excluded from this in 1931. At the same time, Ramsauer became a member of the Innsbruck Heimwehr student company . In 1935 Ramsauer moved to the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1940 .

Ramsauer was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 6.103.648) and from May 30, 1933 a member of the SS (membership number 301.007). He began his SS career in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was regarded as a feared surgeon. In December 1941 he was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp and its twin camp in Gusen , whereupon he was appointed to the site doctor in the Neuengamme concentration camp in the summer of 1942 . From August 1943 he was on-site doctor in the two camps of the Loibl concentration camp on the Loibl Pass , where it is proven that he killed several people by injecting gasoline. He selected hundreds of other forced laborers who were unable to work for repatriation to the main camp in Mauthausen. In 1944 he reached the military rank of Hauptsturmführer in the SS .

After the camp was closed on May 7, 1945, he tried to escape, but was recognized near Ferlach ( Carinthia ) and taken prisoner by partisans . He managed to escape, but surrendered after an appeal from the English. During his trial before a British military court in Klagenfurt, Sigbert Ramsauer was sentenced to life imprisonment on October 10, 1947. On April 1, 1954, he was pardoned due to illness and released early.

He then got a job at the State Hospital in Klagenfurt , where he was promoted to chief physician. From 1956 he also ran his own practice on Klagenfurt Domplatz until old age.

Sigbert Ramsauer died in Klagenfurt in 1991. Shortly before that, he gave an interview for the television film Der Tunnel , in which, when asked whether he had hated the prisoners, he replied: “I had no reason, nor any reason to hate anyone. But I have - let's put it this way - already felt these people to be inferior. " His obituary was headlined with the sentence" Every hour of life is struggle. "

literature

  • Lisa Rettl, Peter Pirker: "I was there with joy." The concentration camp doctor Sigbert Ramsauer - An Austrian story . Milena-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85286-200-2 .
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • 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

swell

  1. ↑ Lisa Rettl , Peter Pirker : “I was there with joy.” The concentration camp doctor Sigbert Ramsauer. Milena Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902950-17-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Ramsauer, Sigbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS doctor in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1991
Place of death Klagenfurt