Irmfried Eberl, an Untersturmfuhrer in the SS, was the first commandant of Treblinka. He committed suicide 1948. SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. ...
Untersturmfuhrer Irmfried Eberl, an Austrian, was tasked with the initial construction and operation of the Treblinka death camp in Poland following service as the medical director in the T-4 Euthanasia program at the Grafeneck Psychiatric Clinic in Wurttemberg.
After a short time commanding Treblinka characterized by serious administrative problems he was replaced by Franz Stangl and his deputy, Kurt Franz by Christian Wirth, inspector of the three Operation Reinhard death camps (Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka).
Source: Arad, Yitzhak, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. 1987.
SS Obersturmführer (1st lieutenant) IrmfriedEberl (Born in Bregenz on September 8, 1910 - February 16, 1948), served as the first commandant of Treblinka.
A doctor and firm supporter of the T-4 Euthanasia Program, Eberl spent two years helping implement the program in Brandenburg and Bernburg, before being transferred to command of Treblinka in July 1942, until he was dismissed two months later for incompetence and replaced by Franz Stangl.
After the war, Eberl found himself a widower following his second wife's death, and continued to practise medicine in Blaubeuren until he was arrested in January 1948, and hanged himself the following month to avoid trial.
Finally, there is IrmfriedEberl (1910-48), unique among doctors in that he went from being head of major T4 gassing facilities to become, at age thirty-two, commandant — not chief doctor but overall commander — of a death camp.
And, in addition to serving in the inner circle of psychiatric experts, he was given special authority to enter various psychiatric institutions and investigate their attitudes toward, and willingness to work energetically in, the “euthanasia” killing project.
Eberl served as a special deputy to Heyde in supervising the all-important area of false causes of death, with the task of establishing consistency in the various killing centers and policies that could convincingly maintain the subterfuge.
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