Walter Grabowski

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Walter Grabowski (born November 11, 1896 in Rosenberg in West Prussia ; † 20th century) was a German Nazi functionary who was involved in National Socialist euthanasia crimes as director of the Obrawalde sanatorium and nursing home .

Life

Grabowski, whose father was a master wood turner, completed a commercial apprenticeship after attending school at the municipal school in Stettin . In the First World War , he took part continuously as a war volunteer from the beginning . After the end of the war he retired from the army with the rank of sergeant major and then joined Field Marshal Hindenburg's Freikorps until 1920 . He then worked as a sales representative in his hometown and a wholesaler. A phase of unemployment followed from 1931 until he was briefly employed by the Szczecin City Administration in 1933 and found a job at the Stettin City Savings Bank from 1934 to 1936 .

Grabowski, who from 1926 belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 37.405) and also to the SA , was NSDAP district leader in Schlawe from 1936 and then in Greifenhagen .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he was mayor of Kalisch from October 1, 1939 , where he was responsible for anti-Jewish measures. He was also involved in special missions: from November 1939 he headed the central office for hospital transfers in Schneidemühl and from 1940 in costs . In this function he was involved in the "administrative handling of the early murders in occupied Poland". From November 1941, Grabowski was the economic director of the Obrawalde sanatorium and nursing home , where up to 18,000 sick people were victims of Nazi euthanasia . At the end of January 1942 Grabowski was awarded the War Merit Cross II. Class without swords. His whereabouts can no longer be determined since January 29, 1945, the day when the prison staff withdrew to the west in the wake of the approaching Red Army . Maybe he committed 1945 suicide . The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court issued an arrest warrant for Grabowski in 1961 , but it was revoked in 1991 due to the alleged death of Grabowski.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons 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 .
  • Peter Sander: Administration of the murder of the sick. The district association Nassau under National Socialism (= historical series of publications of the State Welfare Association of Hesse. University publications. 2). Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-320-8 (also: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 2002). .pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Beddies: The sanatorium and nursing home Meseritz-Obrawalde in the Third Reich. In: Kristina Hübener, Martin Heinze: Brandenburg sanatoriums and nursing homes in the Nazi era (= series of publications on the medical history of the state of Brandenburg. 3). Be.bra Verlag, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-89809-301-8 , pp. 231-258, here pp. 248 f.
  2. ^ A b c d Peter Sander: Administration of the murder of the sick. The Nassau District Association under National Socialism. 2003, p. 729.
  3. ^ Michael Alberti: The persecution and extermination of the Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland 1939–1945 (= German Historical Institute Warsaw. Sources and studies. 17). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05167-1 , p. 99, (complete at the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 2001: The beginnings and the implementation of the "Final Solution" - the persecution and extermination of the Jews in the Reichsgau Wartheland 1939–1945. ).
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2007, p. 195.
personal data
SURNAME Grabowski, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary and Nazi euthanasia perpetrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg in West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century