Doctors

The document is very yellowed and torn on the left edge. The document is densely typed. The paragraphs are assigned to numbered questions. There is also a list of doctors, including their positions and addresses. Information on twelve doctors is provided. With the exception of the two deceased doctors, one doctor from Göttingen and Willi Baumert, all doctors still lived in an apartment in the sanatorium and nursing home at Am Wienebütteler Weg 1 in Lüneburg, including those who had retired. The document is signed by hand in blue ink by Rudolf Redepenning.

Extract from a letter by Rudolf Redepenning with an overview of the doctors at the Lüneburg sanatorium and nursing home (1939 to 1945) dated 26 May 1948.

NLA Hannover Nds. 721 Lüneburg Acc. 8/98 No. 3.

Compared to today, there were few doctors and one female doctor working at the Lüneburg sanatorium. They were involved in various crimes in different ways, as experts, informants, spectators, accomplices and perpetrators. Little is known about many of them.

BERNHARD WINNINGHOFF (1908 – 1989)

Bernhard Winninghoff was born in Hanover in 1908. He studied medicine. In 1938, he married Marga Winninghoff (née Hundertmark). In the same year, he was transferred from the Wunstorf sanatorium and nursing home to Lüneburg as a psychiatrist. This was accompanied by the establishment of a youth welfare home there. The size of the institution was reduced and doctors who became available were distributed to other institutions in the province of Hanover. Bernhard Winninghoff worked at the Lüneburg sanatorium and nursing home without interruption until 1950. He was involved in sterilisation procedures as an expert witness. His involvement in the »Euthanasia« crimes is still the subject of research. He was never questioned and does not appear by name in the investigations of 1948/1949 and 1962 to 1966. Bernhard Winninghoff took up the post of senior physician at Osnabrück State Hospital in 1950. He died on 10 October 1989 in Georgsmarienhütte.

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