Werner Kirchert

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Werner Kirchert (born October 4, 1906 in Halle an der Saale , † December 10, 1987 in Eitorf ) was a German doctor, SS-Obersturmbannführer (1942) and chief medical officer at the concentration camp inspector .

Life

Kirchert attended the humanistic city high school in Halle and graduated from high school in 1927 . He then studied meteorology for three semesters and then medicine . Kirchert completed his studies at the end of 1933 and received his license to practice medicine on December 28, 1934 . His dissertation , entitled to differential diagnosis of Chloroms and Sympathogonioms appeared 1934. On January 5, 1935 Kirchert to Dr. med. PhD .

On November 1, 1933, he joined the SS (membership no. 245.540), for which he worked part-time as an SS doctor. On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5.020.760). From June 1, 1936, Kirchert was employed full-time as a camp doctor in the Sachsenburg concentration camp . Kirchert became a camp doctor in Dachau in 1937 and from there moved in November 1937 to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he worked until the end of November 1938. Eugen Kogon describes him alongside Hans Eisele as one of the worst camp doctors in Buchenwald. From May 1, 1937, Kirchert was in charge of the 1st medical unit of the SS-Totenkopfverband Oberbayern and from November 1, 1937 he was in charge of the medical unit of the SS-Totenkopfverband Thuringia. On December 1, 1938, he took over a command at the Berlin Charité mental hospital . In 1939 Kirchert turned down the post of director of the Nazi killing center in Grafeneck . At Kirchert's suggestion, his former schoolmate Horst Schumann became director there.

After the outbreak of World War II , he was transferred to the SS Totenkopf Division in October 1939 , where he headed the 2nd medical company. From April 1, 1940, he was assigned to the inspection of the concentration camps (IKL) as a senior doctor and returned in August 1940 to the SS Totenkopf Division, where he was deployed until February 1941. In May 1941 as personal advisor to Reichsärzteführer Leonardo Conti . At the beginning of January 1943 he became chief physician in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and was also deputy head of the Criminal Biological Institute of the Reich Criminal Police . In addition, from September 17, 1943, Kirchert was employed as a senior doctor at the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Elbe. From mid-November 1944 Kirchert was assigned to Einsatzgruppe H in Pressburg as a group doctor.

After the end of the war, Kirchert was interned in the Eichstätt labor and detention camp. Before the jury court at Munich Regional Court, Kirchert was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on June 11, 1953 . He later became managing director at OWG-Chemie in Kiel . Investigations initiated by the Würzburg public prosecutor were closed in 1995 after Kirchert's death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Johannes Tuchel: Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. H. Boldt, 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 , p. 379.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 310.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews . 12th edition. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-24364-5 , pp. 98f.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews. 12th edition. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-24364-5 , p. 281.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchert, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1987
Place of death Eitorf