Walter Lichtschlag

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Walter Lichtschlag (born October 5, 1889 in Osnabrück , † 1969 ) was a German doctor and SS leader.

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Lichtschlag was a younger brother of the Freikorpsführer Otto Lichtschlag . After attending school, he studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg, Marburg, Freiburg, Kiel and Breslau . During the First World War , Lichtschlag took part in the field artillery regiment 7 as a medic.

1919 doctorate light blow with a thesis on the Narbencarcinom Dr. med. Then he settled as a surgeon in Wroclaw. At the same time he married the doctor Hildegard Feyerabend (born April 3, 1889 in Görlitz). The marriage had two children.

On June 1, 1931, Lichtschlag joined the NSDAP ( membership number 566.222) and the SS (SS number 18.332). After his promotion to SS-Untersturmführer on December 16, 1931, he took over the position of Sturmbann doctor in the Sturmbann I / 16 in the SS medical service, before he was appointed SS-Section Doctor II on November 9, 1932. On July 4, 1934, he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer . On February 15, 1936, Lichtschlag was finally appointed SS-Oberabschnittsarzt Südost, and thus the highest SS doctor in Silesia.

Lichtschlag - who was also the owner of the SS skull ring, the sword of honor and the Julle chandelier - reached the climax of his SS career on April 20, 1937 when he was promoted to SS-Oberführer .

During the Second World War, Lichtschlag took part as a reserve doctor, most recently since December 1, 1942 as a senior medical officer in the reserve. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class (October 25, 1939), the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords (November 20, 1941) and the Medal for the Winter Battle in the East (August 6, 1942).

Promotions

  • December 16, 1931: SS-Untersturmführer
  • December 19, 1931: SS-Hauptsturmführer
  • November 9, 1933: SS-Sturmbannführer
  • April 28, 1934: SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • July 4, 1934: SS Standartenführer
  • April 20, 1937: SS-Oberführer

Fonts

  • The scar carcinoma. From the Wroclaw University Surgical Clinic . 1919. (dissertation)

literature

  • Towiah Friedman: List of the highest officers of the SS Gestapo and protection police . Institute of Documentation in Israel, Haifa 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Volume 4: Poland - September 1939 – July 1941 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4 , p. 205.
  2. ↑ web.fu-berlin.de ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Light strike, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 1969