Heinz Baumkötter (7 February 1912 – 21 April 2001) was an SS-

Hauptsturmführer __NOTOC__ (, ; short: ''Hstuf'') was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK. The rank of ''Hauptsturmführer'' was a mid-level commander and had equivalent seniority to a ...

and concentration camp medical doctor in

Mauthausen Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regu ...

, Natzweiler-Struthof and Sachsenhausen, who conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates."Those Were the Days": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders, by Ernst Klee, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1991; published in the USA under the title "The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, Old Saybrook, CT, Konecky and Konecky, 1991 Baumkötter was tried in the Sachsenhausen trials by a Soviet military tribunal in 1947 in a trial held in the former city hall in Berlin-Pankow. Among his co-defendants were the former commandant of Sachsenhausen Anton Kaindl, the record keeper Gustav Sorge and the ''Blockfuhrer'' of the punishment block Kurt Eccarius. At the trial Baumkötter was asked what his duties were at the trial: Baumkötter was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison with hard labor, which he served in the coal mines of Vorkuta Gulag. He was released early in 1956, when the USSR released remaining German POWs. He was re-arrested by the West German police in July the same year. On 19 February a court sentenced him to eight years in prison. The court took into consideration his stint in the Gulag as sufficient punishment and released him.

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1912 births 2001 deaths People from Steinfurt SS-Hauptsturmführer People from the Province of Westphalia Mauthausen concentration camp personnel Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel Waffen-SS personnel Foreign Gulag detainees Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the Soviet Union {{nazi-stub