Georg August Weltz

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Georg Weltz during the Nuremberg Trials

Georg August Weltz (born March 16, 1889 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † August 22, 1963 in Icking ) was a German radiologist and head of the Munich Institute for Aviation Medicine. At the Nuremberg doctors' trial he was charged with participating in human experiments in the Dachau concentration camp , but acquitted in 1947.

Life

Weltz studied medicine at the universities of Jena , Kiel , Königsberg and Munich . After passing the state examination in 1913, he did his doctorate in Munich. There, in 1916, his dissertation was published with the title: "On the aetiology of the abdominal wall fibroids". During the First World War Weltz was in the medical service, most recently as an assistant doctor. From 1919 to 1920 he worked as an assistant doctor at a Munich hospital and from 1921 to 1936 as a radiologist in Munich. From 1937 Weltz was a member of the NSDAP . In August 1939 he was drafted into the Air Force as a senior medical officer.

Weltz was represented on the advisory board of the German X-ray Society from 1937 . From 1936 he was a lecturer at the University of Munich and head of the Institute for Aviation Medicine in Munich, which from 1941 operated as the Institute for Aviation Medicine of the Air Force. In 1943 he was appointed adjunct professor for X-ray physiology with a focus on aviation medicine. With interruptions he taught occupational, sports and military physiology at the University of Munich.

After the end of the war, Weltz was indicted at the Nuremberg doctors' trial for participating in the altitude tests carried out by the Luftwaffe, which took place from February 22 to mid-May 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp, but was acquitted together with Siegfried Ruff and Hans-Wolfgang Romberg . Weltz became an adjunct professor for X-ray physiology at the University of Munich in 1952, where he also ran an X-ray practice. Investigations by the public prosecutor's office at the Munich II regional court against Weltz, Ruff and Romberg were discontinued in 1959.

Publications

  • The x-ray findings as part of the report. In: Reichsärztekammer (Hrsg.): Guidelines for termination of pregnancy and sterility for health reasons. Edited by Hans Stadler. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1936, pp. 80-103.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 667.
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Raehlmann: Arbeitswwissenschaft im Nationalozialismus , page 140, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14678-5 , p. 239.
  2. ^ Statement by Georg August Weltz on December 10, 1946 ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Nuremberg Trials Project  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
  3. ↑ Irene Raehlmann: Human Factors in National Socialism: A science sociological analysis , VS Verlag, 2005, ISBN 9783531146782 , p 84
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 185.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 667.
  6. ↑ (Dachau exhibition as pdf; 387 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Weltz, Georg August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weltz, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1963
Place of death Icking