Theodor Niebel

Theodor Niebel (born November 5, 1905 in Recklinghausen ; † August 10, 1974 ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved in " child euthanasia " as part of the Nazi murders .

Life

Niebel completed by the end of his school career, a degree in medicine and a doctorate at the University of Hamburg Dr. med. His dissertation "Experimental attempts to improve the air in air raid shelters " was published in 1936.

The NSDAP stepped Niebel on 1 May 1937th Niebel then initially worked as an assistant doctor at the Dortmund-Aplerbeck institution .

Due to public unrest due to the rising number of deaths, the - euphemistically called - " children's department " was relocated from the youth psychiatry (St. Johannesstift) in Niedermarsberg under the direction of Werner Sengenhoff to the Dortmund-Aplerbeck institution in December 1941 and to the newly created "children's ward for the specialized Treatment of mentally ill children up to the age of 14 ”. The psychiatrist Niebel now took over the management of the “children's department” in Dortmund-Aplerbeck. By May 1945 about 225 children died in the “children's department” in Dortmund-Aplerbeck, among other things as a result of fatal luminal gifts .

After the end of the war, Niebel was not denazified as a simple party member . He continued to work in his place of work and was not prosecuted legally. Promoted to senior medical officer, Niebel retired in 1968.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich : Who was what before and after 1974. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .

Web links

Children's department Dortmund-Aplerbeck on http://www.uvm.edu (English language)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Unworthy of life - Paul Brune. Nazi psychiatry and its consequences (PDF; 552 kB), published on behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association by Markus Köster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-923432-39-9 , p. 16.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 434.
^ Unworthy of life - Paul Brune. Nazi psychiatry and its consequences (PDF; 552 kB), published on behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association by Markus Köster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-923432-39-9 , p. 13.

personal data
SURNAME	Niebel, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist and euthanasia offender
DATE OF BIRTH	5th November 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Recklinghausen
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 1974

[Köster16-1] Unworthy of life - Paul Brune. Nazi psychiatry and its consequences (PDF; 552 kB), published on behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association by Markus Köster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-923432-39-9 , p. 16.

[Klee434-2] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 434.

[3] Unworthy of life - Paul Brune. Nazi psychiatry and its consequences (PDF; 552 kB), published on behalf of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association by Markus Köster, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-923432-39-9 , p. 13.