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Gerhard Schiedlausky
Gerhard Schiedlausky served as chief camp physician involved in selections and prisoner selection for experiments. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück · Germany through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Gerhard Schiedlausky was born on 14 January 1906 in Berlin. According to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, he was chief physician at Ravensbrück from 1941 to 1943. (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”; Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project — person authority record “Gerhard O. Schiedlausky”, birth and death dates and places)
- The Ravensbrück Memorial cites prisoner Karl Gerber’s account that Schiedlausky selected thirty men, six of whom later underwent operations performed by Karl Gebhardt; four died. The memorial also records his participation in selections under Aktion 14f13. (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”)
- A British military tribunal sentenced him to death in the first Ravensbrück trial in February 1947. Harvard Law School Library gives his death date as 3 May 1947 at Hameln. (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”; Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project — person authority record “Gerhard O. Schiedlausky”, birth and death dates and places)
Place in the chain of responsibility
His responsibility is individualised through leadership of camp medical services, selections and identifying prisoners for experiments. The operations are attributed to Gebhardt, not to Schiedlausky. (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”)
Key events and mechanisms
- 1941–1943 – chief physician at Ravensbrück (Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”)
- 1942 – according to Karl Gerber, selection of thirty men; six were later operated on by Karl Gebhardt (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial)
- February 1947 – death sentence in the first Ravensbrück trial (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”)
- 3 May 1947 – execution at Hameln (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project — person authority record “Gerhard O. Schiedlausky”, birth and death dates and places)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The British military tribunal sentenced Schiedlausky to death in the first Ravensbrück trial in February 1947. He was executed at Hameln on 3 May 1947. (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”; Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project — person authority record “Gerhard O. Schiedlausky”, birth and death dates and places)
Limits of the evidence
The figures of thirty selected, six operated on and four deaths derive from Karl Gerber’s account as cited by the memorial; they are not a total victim count for Schiedlausky. No portrait with verified publication rights has been chosen. (Source: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück — digital exhibition “A Few Barracks Further”, “Medical Crimes” and “Criminal Prosecution” sections, paragraphs on Schiedlausky and the first Ravensbrück trial; Source: Polish Institute of National Remembrance — “Following the Traces”, printed p. 82, biographical paragraph “Dr Gerhard Schiedlausky (1906–1947)”; Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project — person authority record “Gerhard O. Schiedlausky”, birth and death dates and places)
Sources
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