Werner Sengenhoff

Werner Sengenhoff (born April 7, 1906 in Dorstfeld , † December 6, 1944 in Niedermarsberg ) was a German psychiatrist who was involved in " child euthanasia " as part of the Nazi murders .

Life

Seng Hoff completed by the end of his school career, a medical school , which he attended the University of Muenster with promotion to Dr. med. completed. His dissertation "A case of dicephalus, diauchenos, dibrachius, dipus with special consideration of circulatory conditions" was published in 1936.

Sengenhoff had already co-founded the NS student union while studying in Düsseldorf and had joined the NSDAP in 1931 . At the NSKK he worked as a storm doctor and later became involved with the Hitler Youth (HJ) as a HJ ban doctor.

From 1936 Sengenhoff was employed as a senior physician at the Dortmund-Aplerbeck institution . In November 1940, Sengenhoff took over the newly established - euphemistically named - “ children's department ” at the youth psychiatry (St. Johannes Stift) in Niedermarsberg , headed by Theodor Steinmeyer . With Sengenhoff, two nurses called “brown sisters” started their work at Johannesstift and worked in the screened “children's department” on day shift. The night and Sunday services were taken over by nuns. The brown sisters administered a cocktail with lethal doses of veronal or luminal doses to children destined for the murder . If the children did not die within a few hours, Sengenhoff gave them a lethal injection . Despite the conspiratorial approach, the child murders did not remain hidden from the public due to the rising death rate. Sengenhoff eventually became “Dr. Sensenhoff "and" Engelmacher "called. Due to the public uproar, the “children's department” was relocated from Johannesstift in December 1941 to the Dortmund-Aplerbeck institution, where Theodor Niebel headed the “children's department”. There is evidence that at least 36 children were murdered at the Johannesstift.

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 .
Karl Cervik : Child Murder in the Ostmark - Child Euthanasia under National Socialism 1938–1945. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-5551-1 .

Web links

Literature by and about Werner Sengenhoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 579.
^ Karl Cervik: Kindermord in der Ostmark , Münster 2004, p. 43.
^ 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	Sengenhoff, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist and euthanasia offender
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorstfeld
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1944
Place of death	Niedermarsberg

[Klee579-1] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 579.

[2] Karl Cervik: Kindermord in der Ostmark , Münster 2004, p. 43.

[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.