Willy Frank (dentist)

Willy Frank (born February 9, 1903 in Regensburg ; † June 9, 1989 in Munich ) was a German engineer and dentist. As a National Socialist and SS member, he was involved in the selection of over 6,000 prisoners in Auschwitz. For this he was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Life

After a regular school career, Frank passed his Abitur in 1923. He then studied engineering at the Technical University of Munich . He became active in the Corps Ratisbonia in 1923 and proved himself as a consenior . In 1927 he passed the examination to become a qualified engineer. After four years in his learned profession, he turned around. In Munich he successfully studied dentistry from 1931 to 1933. After working as an assistant, he opened a dental practice in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1935 . In 1936 he was promoted to Dr. med. dent. PhD .

National Socialist

Since 1920 in the Freikorps Epp , Frank participated in the suppression of the Ruhr uprising . As early as 1922 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party as a founding member of the Regensburg branch . In 1923 he took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich. Frank rejoined the NSDAP in 1933 (membership number 2,942,877), also became a member of the NSKK in 1933 and a member of the SS in 1936 (SS number 289,643). In addition, in addition to his work in his dental practice, he performed on a voluntary basis as a dentist in the role of SS senior physician in Stuttgart for the SS. As a long-serving party member, he wore the old fighters' square of honor and volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1940 . When SS Division "Germania" trained, he fought until January 1942 the SS Division "Wiking" on the Eastern Front . He then worked in the SS hospitals in Dachau , Minsk and Wewelsburg .

From February 1943 he was the second dentist in the Auschwitz concentration camp and rose to the position of chief dentist of the concentration camp in mid-July 1943 as the successor to Karl-Heinz Teuber . He was involved in the selection of more than 6,000 prisoners. From August to November 1944 he was the chief dentist in the Dachau concentration camp . He was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1944 .

See also : List of NSDAP membership numbers  and selection (concentration camp)

After the end of the war

After he was still employed as a member of the SS Totenkopf Division in Hungary during the last months of the war , probably as a troop dentist, he was taken prisoner by the Americans after the end of the war , from which he was released in January 1947. Subsequently he was classified as a “fellow traveler” by the court in Munich as part of the denazification process and then worked again as a dentist in his Stuttgart dental practice. In the first Auschwitz trial he was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Frankfurt am Main jury court in 1965 for joint aiding and abetting in joint murder . He was charged with selecting over 6,000 prisoners for the gas chamber . Frank waived his license to practice medicine in 1969 after the Baden-Württemberg State Dental Association had already considered legal proceedings in 1961 . His son broke up the practice that he had continued during his absence. After his release from prison in 1970, he worked as a pharmaceutical salesman.

literature

• Barbara Huber, the Regensburg SS dentist Dr. Willy Frank . Regensburg, Univ., Diss., Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4151-8
• Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
• Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .
• Andrzej Strzelecki, The recovery of the corpses of the victims . In: Wacław Długoborski u. Piper (Ed.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 83-85047-76-X
• Summary of Barbara Huber's dissertation (PDF) In: Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen . Volume 99, No. 17, September 1, 2009, pp. 122-128

Web links

• Brief portrait of Willy Frank on auschwitz-process-frankfurt.de
• Short biography and photo of Willy Frank on auschwitz-process-frankfurt.de
• Article by Barbara Huber: The Regensburg SS dentist Dr. Willy Frank

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 112 , 326
2. ↑ Dissertation: Hypersensitivity reaction of the oral mucosa to drugs .
3. ↑ Summary of Barbara Huber's dissertation ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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. (PDF) In: Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen . Volume 99, No. 17, September 1, 2009, pp. 122-128 
4. ^ Note from Perlentaucher : Auschwitz 1940–1945.