Arend Lang

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Arend Wilhelm Lang (born September 15, 1909 in Leer , East Friesland , † February 23, 1981 in Aurich ) was a German doctor , National Socialist , private scholar and cartographer .

Life

Lang was the son of an iron foundry manufacturer. He entered the Young German Order in 1928 . After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Vienna and Bonn from 1929. In mid-July 1931 Lang became a member of the NSDAP with membership number 607.741 and four months later a member of the SS with SS no. 24.178, where he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1943. As a member of SS Standard 11, he played a key role in the failed July coup in Vienna in 1934 . Afterwards he settled in Czechoslovakia and was deported from there to the German Reich . He finished his medical studies at the University of Bonn and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After his appointment, at the beginning of March 1937 he was employed as an assistant doctor at the Aurich Health Department , where he wrote a memorandum on the “solution of the anti-social problem through the Ges. Z. V. e. N. " wrote. From March 1938 he worked for the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, from the beginning of October 1938 to March 1941, he headed the “Hereditary and Racial Care” department in the Main Health Office of the municipal administration of the Reichsgau Vienna, where he set up a hereditary database. In personal union he took over the deputy head of the racial politics office of the NSDAP in Vienna. Furthermore, he was an assessor at the Vienna Higher Hereditary Health Court . In mid-May 1941 he became a consultant for "biological ethnicity issues" in the Reich Committee for Public Health at the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

Dedicated to regional studies in Friesland since his youth, he was one of the founders of the Frisian Academy Leeuwarden in 1938. After the campaign in the west, he carried out propaganda tasks in the German-occupied Netherlands. From April 1942 he was a troop doctor in the army of the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, Lang was held as an American prisoner of war, from which he was able to escape in September 1945. He went underground in North Frisia and turned to historical cartography. In the course of denazification , he was investigated for years. In 1949, as a former SS member and participant in the July coup, an arrest warrant was issued against him . After an interrogation in Flensburg, he was finally released in autumn 1949.

Lang moved to Juist in 1949 , where he settled as a private scholar. He became an internationally “recognized specialist in sea cartography and an expert in cartography of the Frisian coast”. In addition to corresponding teaching assignments at German universities, he also published specialist literature in this context. He became head of the Juist Coastal Museum .

Arend Lang was married to Carola (1925-2010), née Loose. After his death he was buried in the dune cemetery on the island of Juist .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • On the housing and water conditions in the Leer district , Bonn, Med. Dissertation, 1937
  • To solve the anti-social problem through the Ges. Z. V. e. N. , shown at the village of Moordorf in the Aurich district , memorandum 1938
  • The Juister Watt: Development of d. Islands and mainland around d. Wadden area from Juist to Norderney since d. 16th century , Dorn, Bremen-Horn 1955 (publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony eV; Vol. 57; publications of the Lower Saxony Office for State Planning and Statistics)
  • Design change of the Ems estuary funnel: Investigations z. Development d. Ems estuary from d. Middle d. 16. to z. Start d. 20th century , Dorn, Bremen-Horn 1958 (publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony eV vol. 58; publications of the Lower Saxony Office for State Planning and Statistics)
  • Small map history of Friesland between Ems and Jade: Development d. Land u. Sea cartography from its beginnings to the end d. 19th century , Norden / Soltau 1962 (Ed .: Kreis- u. Stadtsparkasse Norden)
  • History of the navigation system. Development, establishment and administration of the navigation system on the German North Sea coast up to the middle of the 19th century , Der Bundesminister für Verkehr, Bonn 1965
  • Investigations on the morphological development of the Dithmarscher Watts from the middle of the 16th [sixteenth] century to the present , Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority f. Economy u. Traffic, electricity u. Hafenbau, Hamburg 1975 (belongs to: Hamburg Coastal Research; H. 31)
  • Historical nautical charts of the German Bight , (6 series, 1969–1981)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d German Biographical Encyclopedia : Volume 6: Kraatz - Menges. , Munich 2006, p. 224
  2. ↑ Herwig Czech: Record, appraise, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 24
  3. ↑ Kartographische Nachrichten , Volumes 31–32, 1981, p. 157
  4. ↑ http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=344&tomb=17&b=a
  5. ↑ a b http://www.archiv-heinze.de/karte/karte.html
personal data
SURNAME Long, Arend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lang, Arend Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, National Socialist and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Empty
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1981
Place of death Aurich