Wilhelm Berndt (doctor)

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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Berndt (born August 2, 1889 in Hamburg , † May 16, 1945 in Marne ) was a German physician and senior physician in the SS medical services, most recently in the rank of SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen SS .

Life

After finishing his school career, Berndt initially studied three semesters of natural sciences and then completed a medical degree , which he completed at the end of June 1914. As Medizinalpraktikant he received at the outbreak of World War I , the Notapprobation and worked as a medical officer in the infantry regiment 81 throughout combatants. Awarded several times, he was discharged from the army at the end of the war with the rank of colonel in the reserve. From mid-January 1919 he worked as an assistant doctor at a hospital and in the same year was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . From February 1920, the year of his marriage, he practiced as a general practitioner in Hamburg.

After the National Socialists seized power , he joined the Schutzstaffel at the beginning of November 1933 (SS No. 229.196). He was also a member of the Nazi Medical Association and the Lebensborn . He became a member of the NSDAP in early May 1937 ( membership number 4.054.776).

From autumn 1938 Berndt belonged as hauptsturmführer the second sanitary unit of the SS Totenkopfstandarte II Brandenburg and was from the beginning of February 1939 a few weeks SS garrison doctor and medical officer at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The inmate Hans Reichwein who survived Sachsenhausen blamed Berndt for wrongly issued death certificates and the knowledge of inmate abuse. On March 6, 1939, he was assigned to the SS-Standarte Germania as a troop doctor and deployed as a doctor on - site for the SS emergency services in Hamburg.

With the beginning of the Second World War he was involved in the attack on Poland in September 1939 as regimental doctor in his SS unit in the wake of the 14th Army . Members of the SS standard Germania were jointly responsible for the murders of Jews. In the spring of 1941 he became a senior physician with the commander of the Waffen SS East in Krakow and a few weeks later with the commander of the Waffen SS North . He took part in the German-Soviet War on the polar front with the unit of the Waffen SS, later designated as the 6th SS Mountain Division “North” .

In March 1942 he was transferred to the SS Medical Office and was initially the main department head of Department I. In the course of the restructuring of this office, he was entrusted with the management of Office XIII (military medical service). He was deputy head of the office, Karl Genzken . At the beginning of May 1943 he moved to the SS main office led by Gottlob Berger as a senior doctor , where he worked until the end of the war. In November 1944 he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS. Berndt died a few days after the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the Navy hospital in Marne .

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personal data
SURNAME Berndt, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berndt, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, SS brigade leader, major general of the Waffen SS, senior doctor in the SS medical services
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1945
Place of death Marne