Erich Hippke

Erich Hippke ( born March 7, 1888 in Prökuls, district Memel, † June 10, 1969 in Bonn ) was a German General Surgeon.

Life

Hippke was in the time of National Socialism from 1937 to the end of December 1943 inspector of the medical service of the Luftwaffe. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. Under Hippkes participation as the highest-ranking member of Air Force took place on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp from 1941 vacuum experiments and Auskühlungsversuche. In May 1942, the height of trials were completed and Hippke reported to the SS -Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff report. Hippke spoke in February 1943 Heinrich Himmler 's " ergebendsten thanks " and described the experiments on human beings as " great help ". Opposite Wolff explained Hippke in March 1943: " All work in the field of aviation medicine - ie the height - were already under my scientific supervision in my capacity as Head of the German aviation medicine. "

Hippkes successor Oskar Schroeder was indicted after the war at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial; an indictment Hippkes was omitted because it submerged and his whereabouts were unknown at startup. Hippke was working doctor of the Hamburg subway and staff of the Hamburg Chamber of Physicians. Upon his arrest in December 1946, he worked as a general practitioner in Hamburg. As the person responsible for human experimentation Medical Inspector he was interrogated in the so-called milk - trial of his superiors Erhard Milch as a witness of the Military Tribunal II. He left Nuremberg without charge. He then worked until 1962 Kassenarzt in Berlin and as a consultant in the reconstruction of the medical service of the Luftwaffe of the Bundeswehr.