Irmfried Eberl
| Irmfried Eberl | |
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Irmfried Eberl
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| Born |
September 8, 1910 Bregenz, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | February 16, 1948 (aged 37) Ulm, Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Years of service | 1931–1945 |
| Rank |
 Obersturmführer, (first lieutenant) |
| Unit |
 SS-Totenkopfverbände
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| Commands held | Treblinka, 11 July 1942 — 26 August 1942 |
| Other work | Psychiatrist |
SS-Obersturmführer Irmfried Eberl (8 September 1910 – 16 February 1948) was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp where he worked from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942. He was arrested after the end of the war in January 1948. Eberl hanged himself the following month to avoid trial.
Irmfried Eberl was born in Bregenz, Austria on 8 September 1910. He joined the Nazi Party on 8 December 1931 while still a medical student at Innsbruck University. Eberl graduated from the medical program in 1933 and gained his doctorate a year later. After February 1935 he served as an assistant physician. Trained and practising as a psychiatrist, he was a firm supporter of the mass murder of people with mental disorders.
When the T-4 Euthanasia Program commenced, Eberl was a willing participant. On 1 February 1940, at 29 years old, Eberl became the medical director of the killing facility at Brandenburg. In the fall of 1941 he assumed the same position at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre. Despite not being formally ordered to take part, psychiatrists such as Eberl were at the center of each stage of justifying, planning and carrying out the mass murder of those with mental disorders, and constituted the connection to the later annihilation of Jews and other "undesirables" in the Holocaust.
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