Heinz Baumkötter
Heinz Baumkötter was an SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp doctor in Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof and Sachsenhausen, who conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
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:
Sentenced to life imprisonment at Vorkuta Gulag coal mines. Was released in 1956 when Russia released remaining German POWs. He was re-arrested by the West German police in July the same year. On the 19th of 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.
