Richard von Hegener
Richard von Hegener | |
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Born | 2 September 1905 Action T4 Nazi "euthanasia " program |
Richard von Hegener (2 September 1905 – 18 September 1981) was a primary organizer of the
Biography
Hegener was born in
With the beginning of the "child euthanasia" program, the first stage in the program that would become known after World War II as
Hegener later provided an account of how the method of killing was decided: injections and overdoses of narcotics were ruled out as impractical and it was decided to use
At the end of the war, Hegener took refuge together with Hefelmann in Stadtroda, in Thuringia, where the records concerning the child "euthanasia" program were also taken to be destroyed.[12] He worked first in agriculture and later for a timber processing company. Under the slightly altered name of Richard Wegener,[13] he obtained a position at the Ministry of Commerce and Transportation in Mecklenburg.[2]
Arrested in 1951, Hegener was sentenced on 14 July 1952 by the Magdeburg State Court to life in prison for crimes against humanity. However, after serving four years of his sentence, he was released in July 1956 under a so-called ministerial decision.[13] He then moved from East Germany to the West. He remained in contact with his former supervisor, Hefelmann, and obtained a sales position at Deutsche Werft in Hamburg[3] through Dietrich Allers, who was advising the company legally and had formerly headed the central office at Action T4.
Hegener was interrogated beginning in 1960,[14] and gave evidence at the trials of Franz Hofer, the former Gauleiter of Tyrol-Vorarlberg, in the early 1960s, of Hefelmann in 1964,[8][15] and of Allers in 1968.
He died in Altona, Hamburg, in 1981.[2]
References
- ISBN 978-1-84725-031-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-525-46174-7.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-095007-6.
- ^ a b Benzenhöfer, Udo (October 2000). "NS-'Kindereuthanasie': 'Ohne jede moralische Skrupel'". Deutsches Ärzteblatt (in German). 97 (42): 2766–72.
- ISBN 978-0-8078-4675-9.
- ISBN 3-596-24326-2.
- ^ Statement cited at Euthanasie, Deathcamps.org, 2 September 2006, retrieved December 14, 2012 (in German)
- ^ a b Grunenberg, Nina (May 1, 1964). "'Manchmal mußten wir massiv werden': Euthanasie-Prozeß in Limburg". Die Zeit (in German).
- S2CID 45659911.
Nach einer ersten Sichtung in der 'Kanzlei des Führers' durch Hefelmann und seinen Stellvertreter Richard von Hegener bestimmten die eingesetzten Gutachter ... über das Schicksal der Kinder
. - S2CID 70514958.
Brack, in turn, delegated considerable authority to his deputies, Hans Hefelmann, who had a doctorate in agriculture, and Richard von Hegener, who had worked for a bank and as a statistician
. - S2CID 164706087.
- JSTOR 30195534.
- ^ ISBN 9783525350188.
- ISBN 978-0-521-47769-7.
- ^ "Nazi Says Parents Approved Killings". The New York Times. April 23, 1964.(payment required)