Hugo Bofinger

Hugo Bofinger (born October 3, 1876 in Enzklösterle ; died 1953 ) was a German doctor and bacteriologist. As a medical officer in German South West Africa , he was involved in human experiments.

Life

Bofinger studied from 1894 at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education in Berlin and belonged to the academy until 1899. He studied with Wilhelm Waldeyer , Rudolf and Hans Virchow , among others . He submitted his dissertation on August 9, 1898 with the title About bending of the lower extremity after inflammatory processes . In 1900 he was promoted to assistant doctor. From 1902 to 1903 he was employed at the Imperial Health Department in Berlin.

Bofinger came to German South West Africa as a senior physician in February or March 1905 and stayed until July 1907. On April 23, 1905, he founded the bacteriological laboratory in Lüderitz Bay . He was its head as well as the sick natives station (Kr. E. Stat.). A few months after his arrival, on August 18, 1905, he was promoted to medical officer.

The laboratory was on Shark Island in the immediate vicinity of the concentration camp there , which was used for internment in the context of the genocide of the Herero and Nama . Bofinger's prisoners were used as test subjects for medical purposes. Bofinger was looking for a cure for scurvy . The prisoners were injected with various substances. After the death of the victims, autopsies were carried out on their bodies in Field Hospital XII. The heads were cut off and sent to the Anatomical Institute in Berlin. In 1910, Bofinger published an article about his activities in German South West Africa in the German military medical journal with some messages about scurvy .

From 1908 Bofinger was a garrison doctor in Stuttgart . In 1909 he married. Hans Ulrich Bofinger was his son.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Documentation recording the results of examinations carried out on the twenty skulls from Namibia (nine Herero, eleven Nama) to determine their provenance. Charité. Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2011, accessed on April 4, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Holger Stoecker: Bones in the depot. Namibian skulls in anthropological collections from the colonial era . In: Jürgen Zimmerer (Ed.): No place in the sun: places of remembrance of German colonial history . 2013, p. 448 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Paul Wätzold: Stammliste of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for the military medical education: On behalf of the medical department of the Königl. Ministry of War using official sources . 2013, p. 447 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bofinger, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Enzklösterle
DATE OF DEATH	1953

[charite-1] Documentation recording the results of examinations carried out on the twenty skulls from Namibia (nine Herero, eleven Nama) to determine their provenance. Charité. Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2011, accessed on April 4, 2017 .

[stoecker-2] Holger Stoecker: Bones in the depot. Namibian skulls in anthropological collections from the colonial era . In: Jürgen Zimmerer (Ed.): No place in the sun: places of remembrance of German colonial history . 2013, p. 448 .

[wätzold-3] A ^b ^c Paul Wätzold: Stammliste of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for the military medical education: On behalf of the medical department of the Königl. Ministry of War using official sources . 2013, p. 447 .