Irmfried Eberl (* 8 September 1910 in Bregenz (Austria); "† 16 February 1948 in Ulm by suicide) was following as a physician from 1940 to 1942 medical director/conductor of the "euthanasia" - institutes Brandenburg and Berne castle in the context of the action T4 and in the summer 1942 first director/conductor of the extermination camp Treblinka in the context of the action Reinhardt.

Life

Eberls parents were converted due to their national convicition from catholicism to the protest anti-mash, since the catholic church appeared too to them. The National Socialist attitude of his father, engineer Franz Eberl, led to its dismissal as a factory inspector for Vorarlberg from the Austrian government service.

Of 1928 to studied Eberl medicine at the University of Innsbruck. On 8 December 1931 it became member of the NSDAP (member NR. 687095). In February 1935 it was attained a doctorate to the Dr. med. and worked in the hospital Rudolf donation in Vienna and at the lung welfare place Grimmenstein as Assistenzarzt. Its NSDAP membership prevented an unlimited occupation in Austria, so that Eberl went 1936 to Germany. In its personal record from 4 November 1934 Eberl reports on its study time in Innsbruck (procedure of the public prosecutor's office Ulm against Eberl, Az.: 4 Js 9849/47, document Eberl II/611):

"Of the summer semester 1932 up to the dissolution of the German studentses of Innsbruck in May 1933 I was director/conductor of the office for on behalf of the National Socialist German student federation (NSDStB). In the 1933 I was selected with the Asta choice as a representative of the NSDStB into the Innsbrucker student chamber. In addition I belonged to the engine tower I and afterwards the SA storm 14. For this reason of the Austrian government the attitude was refused to me as a physician"Â…. "

To short employments at the German institute for hygiene in Dresden, in the office for people welfare gau Magdeburg notion in Dessau, in the lung welfare place sanatorium Birkenhaag in Berlin Lichtenrade and at the office for rescue of the city Berlin, changed Eberl as a scientific member to main public health authorities in Berlin, where it found a longer occupation.

In the year 1938 he married his Mrs. Ruth, who was active as a department chief in the office for woman of the German work front (DAF) and as Gaufrauenwalterin of the DAF organisation abroad of the NSDAP.

In January 1940 it participated with other in the first sample gasification of patients in the mental hospital Brandenburg. On 1 February 1940 Dr. Eberl was employed officially with "the non-profit donation for institute care "(a camouflage company of the T4-Organisation) and began his service as first directors/conductors of the new "euthanasia "- institute Brandenburg. There it, so far present, made all murders personally. According to its received pocket diary, guest it on 10 July for the first time Jewish patient. In November 1940 Dr. Eberl transferred institute Berne castle after dissolution "of the euthanasia "- institute Brandenburg in October 1940 as a leader the again established "euthanasia "- and changed with the personnel "of the euthanasia "- institute Brandenburg there.

In the framework "of the organization Todt "Dr. Eberl was used in January 1942 at the east front for the supply and the transport of wounded one into rear military hospitals.

Following this employment it was abkommandiert for the action Reinhardt. As it communicated in a letter, Dr. Eberl adhered to 24 April 1942 in the finished, but yet extermination camps did not open Sobibor up to obviously participate in order as for Treblinka of intended camp leaders in at the same time the taking place sample gasification. At the latest since June 1942 it was in Warsaw with the SS and police leader in Warsaw, in order to worry about the Materialanforderungen for the new extermination camp Treblinka. End of the monthly it wrote to its wife:

The last days were a mad rush, all the more as itself the structure work the end approach and we the date, 1,7. hold cannot, but only so few as possible to exceed want. (...) In the course of this week I will then finally move to T. My there address is: Dr. Eberl, Treblinka b/Malkinia, SS-Sonderkommando.

On 22 July 1942 liquidating the Warsaw Ghettos began. On the following day the first Jewish victims from Warsaw in Treblinka arrived. One week later wrote Eberl of its wife:

That I wrote lately somewhat few white I, could not this however not change, since the last Warsaw weeks were accompanied by an agitation, which was inconceivable, equally in Treblinka a speed began here, which is breath-robbing almost. If I had four parts and the day 100 hours, then that became is probably also not yet completely enough.

At the end of August 1942 came it into Treblinka to a collapse of the machinerymachinery machinery. Thousands of corpses lay about generally speaking stock area, the camp personnel did not come along with the Verscharren in mass graves. Dr. Eberl was made responsible for the conditions dominant in the camp for Christian Wirth (inspector of the extermination camps) by its here-hurried superiors Odilo Globocnik (Reinhardt in the Generalgouvernement assigns) the execution of the action, and. It was relieved immediately of its post and replaced by the camp leader Franz Stangl called for from Sobibor.

Dr. Eberl was used thereafter probably again in Berne castle. Unknown also the activity is Eberls after dissolution of this institute at the end of of July 1943. A permission from 1 June 1944 of the people-German central place for the acquisition of foreign exchange is documentarily occupied and an official travel on behalf the realm government into the Slowakei in July 1944. The summoning to the armed forces took place to 31 January 1944.

After 1945

After the war Dr. Eberl established itself as a physician in the Swabian Blaubeuren, where it could practice first unimpaired. In the summer 1947 the chief public prosecutor's office Stuttgart is made attentive for institute Berne castle by the American military authorities on a physician with the name of the former director/conductor "of the euthanasia, established in Blaubeuren, "-. A hearing Dr. Eberls by American and German agencies does not furnish clearing-up. After establishment of contact with the public prosecutor's office in Soviet, this asks occupied Berne castle on 30 December 1947 for the arrest of Dr. Eberl. This is taken therefore on 8 January 1948 for the American military government in remand. A clarifying of its identity is not possible however.

With the hearing of one in "the euthanasia "- institute count-hit a corner transact sister by the Landeskriminalpolizeiamt on 9 February 1948, recognizes these on one her submitted photography Dr. Eberl.

When on 15 February 1948 a Mitgefangener Dr. Eberl addresses the physician of the same name mentioned therein on the straight published book of Eugen Kogon "the SS-state "and, Eberl probably decides to the suicide, which he on the next day, which 16 February 1948 implements, by in its prison cell in Ulm. At this time the determination authorities have still no knowledge of the true identity of the dead prisoner of remand.

Literature

• Grave ago, Michael, Irmfried Eberl. "Euthanasia "- physician and commander of Treblinka. Frankfurt A.M. 2006. ISBN 3-631-54855-9

• Dietmar Schulze: "Euthanasia" in Berne castle. The national welfare and institute for care Bernburg/Anhalti mental hospital in the time of the national socialism. Publishing house the blue owl, meal 1999, ISBN 3-89206-954-9 (Kurzbiographie Dr. Irmfried Eberls, P. 155-157)

• Hofmann, Ute/Schulze, Dietmar ""Â… today into another institute ", National Socialist obligation sterilization is shifted and "euthanasia "in that of country welfare and institute for care Berne castle, Dessau 1997

• Hofmann, Ute "cause of death: Angina" obligation sterilization and "euthanasia "in that of country welfare and institute for care Berne castle, Magdeburg 1996

• Clover, Ernst "which it did - which they became ", Frankfurt A.M. 1986, ISBN 3-596-24364-5

Related links

• http://www.zeitstrahl.bildung-lsa.de/texte/euthanasie_taeterbio.htm
• http://www.olokaustos.org/bionazi/leaders/eberl.htm - biography and picture of Eberl (Italian)
• http://www.michaelgrabher.de homepage von Eberl Biograph grave ago

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