Richard Benzing

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Richard Benzing (born April 14, 1892 in Schwenningen am Neckar , † February 21, 1947 in Darmstadt ) was a German physician .

Life

Richard Benzing joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1932 and was a member of the NS-Ärztebund , the NSV , the Reichskolonialbund and on the advisory board of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . From 1933 Benzing was the head doctor at the Children's Hospital Park Schönfeld in Kassel and from 1934 head of the Office for People's Welfare in the Gau Kurhessen . A year later he became the regional representative of the Reich Working Group on Mother and Child and headed the Hesse-Nassau Medical Association . In 1942 Benzing went to the University of Marburg as an honorary professor for public health and headed the Institute for National Socialist People's Care from 1943.

He was the recipient of the NSDAP's Golden Decoration .

After the end of the war, his writings Health Care for Mother and Child (Enke, Stuttgart 1941) and Fundamentals of the Physical and Mental Education of Small Children in the National Socialist Kindergarten ( Eher , Berlin 1941) in the Soviet occupation zone were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, entry on Benzing, p. 38.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. at polunbi.de