Hellmuth Unger

This article is about the physician Hellmuth Unger. For the SA leader see Helmuth Unger , for other people see Helmut Unger .

Friedrich Hermann Hellmuth Unger ( pseudonyms : Fritz Herrmann, Hans Holm, Peter Moy ; * February 10, 1891 in Nordhausen , † July 13, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Hellmuth Unger was the son of a building councilor . After graduating from high school in his hometown Nordhausen in 1911 , he began studying medicine at the University of Würzburg . In 1913 he moved to the University of Rostock , then to the University of Halle (Saale) and finally in 1914 to the University of Leipzig . From the beginning of 1915 he worked as a field doctor in the Southern Army in Galicia and the Carpathians , at the same time as a war correspondent . In the same year he was wounded and received the Iron Cross 2nd class. After his recovery he went to Leipzig , where he married in 1916. He continued his studies at the University of Leipzig, which he in 1917 with the state examination and the graduation to doctor of medicine ended. From 1917 to 1919 Unger was an assistant doctor at the Leipzig University Eye Clinic; from 1919 to 1929 he practiced as a resident ophthalmologist in Leipzig. In the 1920s he made extensive trips that took him to Africa , Scandinavia , the USA , Canada and the Caribbean .

Hellmuth Unger, who had already started to write his own literary works before the First World War , developed a considerable activity as a writer in addition to his medical work during the 1920s . During this time he wrote mainly plays , but also - some under the pseudonym "Hans Holm" - a number of entertainment novels.

In 1929 Hellmuth Unger gave up his practice in Leipzig and settled with his family in Berlin . In the following years he was a full-time functionary in various leading associations of the German medical profession . Unger worked as a press officer for the Hartmann Association and the German Association of Doctors and edited magazines for doctors and pharmacists. Although he was not a member of the NSDAP - presumably because of his membership in a Masonic lodge - he held important positions in the coordinated medical system after the National Socialist seizure of power . In particular, from May 1933 he was already active in the press, radio and film department in the newly created educational office for population policy and race care , the later race policy office of the NSDAP , and founder of the magazine Neues Volk ; from 1933 he was press officer of the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner and from 1935 additionally of the Reichsärztekammer ; from 1938 he was chief editor of all German regional medical journals. His journalistic activities extended not least to hereditary and racial hygiene propaganda, and as a member of the Reich Committee for the Assessment of Hereditary and Conventional Severe Ailments , he can at least be regarded as one of the intellectual pioneers of the “ child euthanasia ” practiced in the Third Reich from 1939 onwards .

The life's work of Nobel Prize winner Emil von Behrings

Literary works by Hellmuth Unger that appeared during the Third Reich deserve special mention: His most successful work with more than 300,000 copies sold, the biography Robert Koch published in 1936, which is a revision of the title Helfer der Menschheit published in 1929 , the novel Sendung und Conscience , who in 1941 formed the template for the Nazi propaganda film “Ich klage an” , as well as the work Germanin, also filmed in 1943 under the title Germanin - The story of a colonial act .

Hellmuth Unger took part in World War II from 1942 ; he worked mainly as a war correspondent and reported in particular on the activities of the Wehrmacht's medical services on the various fronts. Unger experienced the end of the war in a hospital in Würzburg after he was injured in an air raid. He became an American prisoner of war , during which he worked as a medical interpreter . After his release he went to Bad Harzburg , where he ran an ophthalmologist's practice until the beginning of 1953. A legal review of his activities in the Third Reich was omitted. Unger began to write again and published other biographical works on important medical professionals. In March 1953 he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he suddenly died a few months later.

Works

• The songs of the bright days , Gera 1912
• Storm in the East , Chemnitz 1915
• Which intervention is recommended for infected gunshot wounds of the knee joint during war? , Leipzig 1917
• The mountains of home , Reutlingen 1918
• The Outlaw , Leipzig 1918
• God's messenger , Leipzig 1918
• Grettir , Leipzig 1918
• Blocksberg , Leipzig 1919
• The great frieze , Dresden 1919
• The Centaurin , Leipzig 1919
• Schnurpels , Leipzig 1919
• The prodigal son , Leipzig 1919
• Joanna and Alexis , Munich 1920
• The night , Leipzig 1920
• Morell's Billions , Leipzig 1921
• The Transfiguration of Falaise , Leipzig 1921
• Carnelian , Leipzig 1922
• Mammon , Leipzig 1922
• Mother legend , Leipzig 1922
• Game of Shadows , Leipzig 1922
• The jump over there , Berlin 1922
• Loneliness , Leipzig 1923
• Menshikov and Katharina , Leipzig 1923
• Goddins eternal masks , Leipzig 1924
• Love affairs , Leipzig 1924
• Palette or A Hero of That Time , Leipzig 1924
• Beifu in love , Leipzig 1924
• The man with a hundred masks , Leipzig 1925 (under the name Hans Holm)
• The island of the apes , Leipzig 1926
• Miracles for Beatrice , Leipzig 1926
• The Girl with the Pearls , Berlin 1928 (under the name Peter Moy)
• Eisland , Bremen 1928
• The escape to Sing-Sing , Berlin 1928 (under the name Hans Holm)
• I'm going with you to Tehran , Leipzig 1928 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Legend of Death , Leipzig 1928
• The Master of the Guild , Berlin 1928 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Passengers , Leipzig 1928
• Helpers of Humanity , Leipzig 1929
• Love and champagne , Leipzig 1929 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Return to Insulinde , Berlin 1930
• Lenox whirls through the world , Leipzig 1930 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Twenty-three from the USA , Berlin 1931
• Once, twice or never , Leipzig 1931 (under the name Hans Holm)
• The Wedding Island , Leipzig 1932 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Felix , Leipzig, 1932 (under the name of Hans Holm) becomes the shooter king
• Under the full moon , Berlin 1932
• The green snake , Berlin 1933 (together with Adolf Carsten Schmidt-Brake)
• Sacrifice hour , Berlin 1934
• The Swiss journey , Berlin 1934
• Miracles and Mysteries , Munich 1935
• Robert Koch. Novel of a great life. Publishing house of the German Medical Association, Berlin 1936
• Men in the moon , Berlin 1936
• Pack ice , Berlin 1936
• Mission and conscience , Berlin 1936
• From the triumphant advance of medicine. Medicinal feats. Lehmann, Munich 1936
• Germanin , Berlin 1938
• The blessed year , Berlin 1938
• Immortal legacy , Oldenburg [u. a.] 1940
• The men of Narvik , Oldenburg OK 1941
• Helpers and soldiers , Berlin [a. a.] 1943
• Days of Probation , Berlin [u. a.] 1944
• Leonardo's secret , Burgdorf 1947
• The Swan vom Avon , Vienna 1948 (under the name Hans Holm)
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , Hamburg 1949
• Louis Pasteur , Hamburg 1950
• Anesthesia. Researchers, helpers, charlatans , Hamburg 1951
• Virchow , Hamburg 1953

literature

• Claudia Sybille Kiessling: Dr. med. Hellmuth Unger (1891-1953) , Husum 1999
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Entry about Unger in the "Karl May Wiki"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Hellmuth Unger in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ anthology, also contains a new edition of The Jump to Drüben under the title Medusensteine