Walter Paul Schreiber

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Walter Paul Emil Schreiber (born March 21, 1893 in Berlin ; † September 5, 1970 in San Carlos de Bariloche , Río Negro Province , Argentina ) was a German doctor. As a general physician, he was department head in the Reich Research Council and since 1933 a member of the NSDAP .

biography

Schreiber grew up as the son of the post office clerk Paul Schreiber and his wife Gertrud Kettlitz. After graduating from high school in Berlin , he studied medicine at the universities in Berlin, Tübingen and Greifswald .

After his volunteer service in the First World War in 1914, Walter Schreiber served in the 42nd Infantry Regiment and took part in the fighting in France. He was wounded in the Battle of the Marne . After his recovery and further studies, he worked as a medical doctor on the Western Front until 1918.

In 1920 he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Greifswald . During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht's medical services and, as general physician, became head of the science and health management department of the Army Medical Inspection . At the German Research Foundation (DFG), he performed the duties of an agent for disease control.

In October 1942, Schreiber took part in the conference “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Distress”, at which the results of human experiments in Dachau concentration camp were presented. In May 1943, Schreiber chaired the third working conference of advisory specialists in the Wehrmacht. A dispute arose because of the attempts with typhus on concentration camp prisoners through a statement by General Doctor Gerhard Rose . Schreiber then cut off Rose and made sure that this criticism was not recorded in the minutes.

As part of the use of Ipsen's murine typhus vaccine, Schreiber Rose commissioned in 1943 to inquire at the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS whether the use of the vaccine could be tested in the Buchenwald concentration camp . He took the post of commander of teaching group C of the Military Medical Academy in September 1943.

In 1944, Schreiber became a scientific adviser to Karl Brandt , the authorized representative for health care. In 1945 he was interned by the Soviets. His reports on epidemics in which he had avoided human experimentation aroused the interest of the Soviet authorities. He served the Soviet prosecutor in the Nuremberg medical trial , Roman Rudenko , as a witness against doctors of the Nazi regime with whom he had worked.

In September 1948 he was released from Soviet captivity in the eastern part of Germany. In the Soviet Zone he was offered a position as a doctor in the newly formed People's Police . He then fled to West Berlin on October 17, 1948 . There the Allied authorities made him an offer to work with the Counter Intelligence Corps . He was then employed in 1950 at Camp King as a doctor in Oberursel .

As part of Operation Paperclip , Schreiber moved in September 1951 to the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio , Texas , which was reported on October 7, 1951 in The New York Times .

In 1952, the journalist Drew Pearson published the connection between Schreiber's activities in the Nazi regime and his appearance at the Nuremberg Doctors Trial. The director of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), Colonel Benjamin Heckmeyer , then tried to limit the damage. As a way out, Schreiber suggested going to his daughter in Argentina. On May 22, 1952, he flew to Buenos Aires . There he is said to have worked as a doctor in a laboratory. He spent the last years of his life in Argentina , where he died in 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vasilij Stepanowitsch Christoforow, Vladimir Gennadjewitsch Makarow, Matthias Uhl (ed.): Interrogated: The questioning of German generals and officers by the Soviet secret services 1945-1952 (publications of the German Historical Institute Moscow, Volume 6). De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3110416046 , Appendix 7.17, short biography of Walter Schreiber)
  2. ^ Date of death after: Rainer Mackensen, Jürgen Reulecke, Josef Ehmer: Origins, types and consequences of the construct "population" before, during and after the "Third Reich": On the history of German population science. , VS Verlag, 2009, p. 326
  3. ^ Helmut J. Fischer: Hitler's apparatus . Kiel 2000
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich Frankfurt am Main, 2003.
  5. ↑ a b Angelika Ebbinghaus , Klaus Dörner (Ed.): Destroying and healing. The Nuremberg Medical Trial and its Consequences , Berlin 2001.
  6. ↑ Linda Hunt: Secret Agenda. The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 . St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991.
  7. ^ Tom Bower: The Paperclip Conspiracy. The Battle for the Spoils and Secrets of Nazi Germany . London 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Clerk, Walter Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clerk, Walter Paul Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, head of department in the Reich Research Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1970
Place of death San Carlos de Bariloche , Río Negro Province , Argentina