Heinrich Schmidt (physician)

Ernst Heinrich Schmidt ( born March 27, 1912 in Altenburg, † November 28, 2000 in Celle) was a German SS -Hauptsturmführer and used as a camp doctor in the concentration camps.

Biography

Schmidt, who earned his doctorate in 1937 at the University of Leipzig as a Doctor of Medicine, was a member of the NSDAP ( Mitgliedsnr. 555 294 ) and SS ( Mitgliedsnr. 23.069 ). After the outbreak of World War II Schmidt was first used in a military hospital of the Waffen- SS.

Schmidt 1941 was camp doctor in the concentration camp Buchenwald and was transferred from there in June 1942 in the concentration camp at Majdanek. In October 1943, Schmidt was the first camp doctor in the concentration camp Gross-Rosen and was transferred in September 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp. Between March 1945 and early April 1945 acted Schmidt as camp doctor in the outer bearing Boelkekaserne of Mittelbau concentration camp in Nordhausen. During the evacuation of the Mittelbau Schmidt came on 8 or 9 April in the concentration camp Bergen- Belsen, which was taken over by members of the British army on 14 April. Schmidt said as Alfred Kurzke as a witness in the Bergen- Belsen Trial on 25 October 1945. At this time he was a senior physician in the DP camp at Bergen- Belsen.

Later he was arrested and in the Dachau Dora - process, which took place as part of the Dachau trials of 7 August 1947 to 30 December 1947 and acquitted.

After a re-arrest, he was indicted on 26 November 1975 by the Landgericht Dusseldorf in the so-called Majdanek trial for joint accessory to murder of at least eight prisoners on grounds of attending selections for the gas chamber. Presumed Innocent was Schmidt, who was wanted in Poland for murder, acquitted on 20 March 1979, was released from prison on April 19, 1979.

Schmidt said to have lived in Uetze 1985.