Sturmbannführer Alfred (Dr) Schnabel

Date Of Birth : 11/03/1888
Position Within Bergen-Belsen : Medical Officer/Lagerarzt
Comments :
Trial Location : Not Prosecuted/Unknown
   
Brief History

01 May 1933 joined the NSDAP.

25 September 1939 - 15 January 1940 Chief Doctor of the Bad Kudowa Wehrmacht Field Hospital.

03 June 1940 Oranienburg.

07 March 1941 - 16 June 1941 SS Hospital Berlin.

16 June 1941 - 01 November 1941 SS Hospital at München-Dachau.

01 November 1941 - 16 July 1942 SS Hospital Kiew.

16 July 1942 - 04 August 1942 SS Sanitatsamt Berlin.

04 August 1942 SS WVHA, Amtsgruppe D III Oranienburg.

01 September 1942 - 21 September 1944 chief of the medical department (Standortarzt) at Flossenbürg.

21 September 1944 - 16 February 1945 Bergen-Belsen replacing Dr Erich Kather. He was often drunk but did not participate in violence against the prisoners, but then neither did he do much for the inmates either.

Caught Typhus January 1945.

In a deposition made in 1954, Schnabel wrote: ‘Shortly before the war ended, he was transferred to a military hospital (Wehrmacht) in Silesia, where he was captured by the Russian Army on 9th May 1945.

July 1948 he was released from a Russian prisoner of war camp.

From 1950 he had his own medical practice in Köln.

What happened to him after 1954 is unknown.

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