Carl-Heinz Rodenberg
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Carl-Heinz Rodenberg | |
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Died | 1995 | (aged 90–91)
Occupation | German Action T4 perpetrator |
Carl-Heinz Rodenberg, sometimes known as Karl-Heinz Rodenberg (19 November 1904 in
Life
The son of a physician, Rodenberg studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1930 from the
Rodenberg joined the
From 28 February 1940 to 14 October 1940, Rodenberg was listed as an expert of the
In 1940 Rodenberg tried to join the Schutzstaffel (SS). Being at that time an SA-Sturmbannführer health worker, a report confirmed that Rodenberg had been a long-time informant for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The report shows that Rodenberg had "provided the SD with valuable material on many occasions" and "in his work for the SD he has great interest. His placement in the SS [...] is therefore important."[3] In the SS, Rodenberg was promoted on 30 January 1944 to SS-Obersturmbannführer. For the promotion, his "excellent attitude towards life, his spirit of camaraderie and his resolute presence" were noted.[3]
In August 1942, Rodenberg was transferred to the
On 1 July 1943, Rodenberg was transferred to RSHA Amt V, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), as a speaker on issues of sexual psychology and also took the position of scientific director of the
Since 1941, Rodenberg had written of the castration of homosexuals in
Post-war
After the end of the war, Rodenberg lived in Wald-Michelbach. Because of his participation in the conference of 27 October 1942, the prosecution of Darmstadt and Berlin investigated him in the 1970s, but failed to prosecute. Speaking to the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in 1986, Rodenberg denied his activities in the Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion. He stated that studies on the therapeutic success of castration had been limited to moral crimes, not to homosexuals. Rodenberg's claim that he was indifferent to "the way in which homosexual adults appease their sexual desires freely amongst themselves"[9] was contrary to Rodenberg's publications during the Nazi regime.[10]
Bibliography
- Burkhard Jellonek: Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz. Die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich. Schöningh, Paderborn 1990, ISBN 3-506-77482-4
References
- ISBN 3-05-004094-7, p. 454.
- ISBN 3-596-24326-2, p. 228.
- ^ a b c Documents in the Berlin Document Center on Rodenberg, quoted in Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 127. Recognition of Himmler: ibid, p. 161.
- ^ To see Rodenberg as a participant see Klee, Personenlexikon, p. 501. About the contents of the conference: Chronologie des Holocaust Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (in German), go to 27 October 1942.
- ISBN 3-596-15973-3, p. 167; see also Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 128.
- ^ Carl-Heinz Rodenberg: Betrachtungen zum Fragenkreis: Entmannung aus kriminalpolitischer Anzeige. In: Der öffentliche Gesundheitsdienst. 7(1941), p. 235. op. cit. Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 159.
- ^ Carl-Heinz Rodenberg: Zur Frage des kriminaltherapeutischen Erfolges der Entmannung homosexueller Sittlichkeitsverbrecher. In: Deutsche Justiz 104(1942), pp. 581-587, op. cit. Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 160.
- ^ Rodenberg at the Ministerialrat Rietzsch (Reichsjustizministerium), 3 October 1942, op. cit. Grau, Homosexualität, p. 320 and see also Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 161.
- ^ Correspondence between the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen and Rodenberg from March and May 1986, cited in Jellonek, Homosexuelle, p. 127. The Zentrale Stelle unsuccessfully tried to get an interview between Jellonek and Rodenberg.
- ^ This article incorporates information from the corresponding article in the Spanish Wikipedia