Rudolf Wohlrab

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Rudolf Emil Wohlrab (born January 31, 1909 in London ; † September 30, 1995 ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and epidemiologist .

Life

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Wohlrab was the son of a master locksmith. After elementary school he attended the advanced school in Greiz . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Innsbruck and Rostock, which he graduated with the medical state examination at the end of 1933. At the University of Rostock , he was the end of 1933 to the Dr. med. PhD . He did his medical internship with Viktor Schilling at the Moabit Hospital . From 1935 he was assistant to Richard Otto at the Berlin Robert Koch Institute and from 1936 at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt am Main . Wohlrab completed his habilitation in 1941 at the University of Frankfurt am Main. His research focus was in the area of ​​disease control. In particular, he devoted himself to researching typhus and typhus and the development of a corresponding vaccine.

During the Second World War he worked in German-occupied Poland . Initially, he was employed under Wilhelm Hagen , based in Warsaw, at the Health Department of the Warsaw District in the Generalgouvernement . From 1942 he headed the typhus department at the State Institute for Hygiene in Warsaw. Wohlrab undertook "experiments with Prontosil rubrum, Rubiazol and Be1034 Bayer on Jews ( Klinische Wochenschrift. Issue 20/1942) as well as experiments with lice on unvaccinated Poles (MMW 1944)". In a specialist article in 1942 he expressed himself as follows: "We have been able to evaluate our own previous animal experiments [...] with typhus on humans in epidemic hospitals in Warsaw since 1940." In December 1942, Wohlrab and his superior Robert Kudicke were appointed by Governor General Hans Frank on the occasion of the opening of the typhus research institute in Lemberg awarded the War Merit Cross 1st Class for their services in the fight against typhus . According to Andrea Riecken, Wohlrab was "significantly involved in the National Socialist extermination policy in the context of fighting typhus in the ghettos". In Ludwik Hirszfeld's book The Story of One Life, he notes that Kudicke and Wohlrab relocated the inventory of the State Institute for Hygiene from Warsaw to Wroclaw as the Red Army approached . Wohlrab was arrested by members of the Red Army after the battle for Breslau . A former Polish employee at the State Institute for Hygiene in Warsaw, who had also been brought to Wroclaw, stood up for Wohlrab and defended him. This saved Wohlrab from being convicted.

After the end of the war, he returned to Greiz from Breslau in the summer of 1945. Since he did not want to work as an epidemic commissioner for the Soviet military administration, he moved with the family from Thuringia to Lower Saxony. From 1945 he worked as a refugee doctor and epidemic consultant in Lower Saxony. From 1950 he headed the Medical Examination Office in Osnabrück and from 1952 until his retirement in 1974 the Medical Examination Office in Hanover . He retired as medical director. Wohlrab appeared as an expert in the proceedings against Gerhard Rose before the Federal Disciplinary Chamber. As a member of the SPD , he was involved in local politics and was a member of the Hanover city council from 1968 to 1981 and the district council from 1981 to 1986.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the reactions of the vascular connective tissue apparatus to intravenous staphylococcal injections and their significance. 1. Notification In: Contributions to pathol. Anatomy to general pathology. Vol. 93, no. 2, Fischer, Jena 1934 (also: medical dissertation at the University of Rostock 1933).
  • Typhus group. Fischer, Jena 1939 (together with Richard Otto).

literature

  • Andrea Riecken: Migration and Health Policy. Refugees and displaced persons in Lower Saxony 1945–1953 (= studies on historical migration research. 17). V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-220-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name according to: Indexing volume for the microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of those involved in the process . S. 156. Karsten Linne (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Published by Klaus Dörner , German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000 on behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century
  2. ^ Matriculation portal of the University of Rostock
  3. ↑ a b c Hospital Hygiene, Healthcare, and Disinfection. Volume 67. Medical Literary Publishing Company, 1975, p. 31
  4. ↑ Development tape for microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of the process involved . S. 156. Karsten Linne (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Published by Klaus Dörner, German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000 on behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century
  5. ↑ Andrea Riecken: Migration and Health Policy. Refugees and displaced persons in Lower Saxony 1945–1953. Göttingen 2006, p. 96
  6. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 684
  7. ↑ Rudolf Wohlrab: Chemotherapy and serotherapy experiments on typhus patients . In: Clinical weekly. Issue 20, 1942, p. 455. Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims. Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 287
  8. ↑ Andrea Riecken: Migration and Health Policy. Refugees and displaced persons in Lower Saxony 1945–1953. Göttingen 2006, p. 95
  9. ^ Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life. University of Rochester Press, 2010, p. 355
  10. ↑ a b Hans Jähner: Rudolf Wohlrab 1909–1995. ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2017 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. In: Website of the SPD Döhren-Wülfek @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spd-doehren-wuelfel.de
personal data
SURNAME Wohlrab, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlrab, Rudolf Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, bacteriologist and epidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1995