Arthur Slauck

Julius Georg Arthur Slauck (born July 19, 1887 in Wilhelmshaven , † April 26, 1958 in Aachen ) was a German internist and rheumatologist .

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Slauck was the son of the naval chief engineer Arthur Slauck (1855-1922) and Anna, née Krüger (1858-1924). After graduating from high school in Wilhelmshaven, he studied medicine at the universities of Marburg , Gießen , Kiel , Berlin and Heidelberg University , where he passed his state examination in 1912 and obtained his doctorate . During the First World War , Slauck did his military service as a medical officer in the Navy and was awarded the Iron Cross of the II and I classes as well as the Front Fighter Cross and the HamburgerHanseatic Cross awarded.

After the war, Slauck moved to Bonn , where he initially worked as a private doctor and in 1922 completed his habilitation in internal medicine at the Bonn University Hospital . He was then accepted into the teaching staff there and appointed associate professor in 1930. At the same time he served as a senior physician at the medical clinic and was appointed acting director from January 1931 to March 1932. In 1934 he received his license to practice medicine as a specialist in internal medicine, including nervous diseases, and as a specialist in radiology . Just one year later, Slauck moved to the Siegen Municipal Hospital for three months and finally, from January 1936, as chief physician at the Landesbad Aachen in Burtscheid and as head of the local rheumatism research institute. In addition, he continued to hold lectures at the University Hospital Bonn.

After Slauck was a member of the German National People's Party from 1926 to 1931 , he joined numerous other organizations during the National Socialist era , including:

• from 1933 of the Sturmabteilung (SA), most recently with the rank of senior medical officer
• from 1934 of the National Socialist People's Welfare
• from 1935 to the NS-Ärztebund
• from 1935 to the Nazi teachers' association
• from 1935 the NSDAP
• without the year to the NS-Altherrenbund
• without a year the NS-Reichskriegerbund , in which Slauck got through the transfer from the Bonn naval association, in which he had been a member since 1925
• from 1937 to the Reich Air Protection Association
• from 1937: the Volksbund for Germanness abroad

On the occasion of the Second World War , Slauck resumed his military service from 1939 and was among other things from 1941 to 1945, most recently in the rank of squadron doctor. R., chief physician of the marine hospitals in Bergen op Zoom , Eindhoven and Cuxhaven on duty. During this time he was awarded the Second Class War Merit Cross in 1942 and the First Class Swords in 1944. Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner until December 1945 and then had to face a denazification process . In 1947 he was classified in Category IV - Followers .

After Slauck had headed the sanatorium of the State Insurance Institution of the Rhine Province in Denklingen for a few months as head physician after his imprisonment , he was employed as medical director of the Aachen municipal hospitals and as chief physician of the internal department there from 1947 to 1948 . He then moved back to the Landesbad Aachen-Burtscheid, where he also remained as chief physician until his retirement in 1954.

In Aachen, Slauck had been a member of Club Aachener Casino since 1936 . He was married to Margot Freiin Gans Edle zu Putlitz (* 1898), daughter of the regimental commander August Freiherr Gans Edler zu Putlitz; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

• On diphtheroid and diphtheroid diseases of the eye , Berkenbusch, Heidelberg 1913
• The generation and utilization of electrical energy on board merchant ships: A manual for technical ship officers of the German merchant fleet , Lohse, Wilhelmshaven 1919
• Instructions for the clinical analysis of infectious rheumatism , Steinkopff, Leipzig, Dresden 1938
• Herder disease and dentist: a book for dentist u. Doctor , Gehlen, Berlin, Leipzig 1940
• On the nature of herder diseases (focal infection and focal toxicosis) , Gehlen, Berlin, Leipzig 1944

literature

• Richard Kühl: Leading clinic doctors in Aachen and their role in the Third Reich , study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf
• Ralf Forsbach: The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” . Oldenbourg Verlag 2006. S141 ( digitized )
• Wilhelm Leopold Janssen , Eduard Arens: History of the Club Aachener Casino. Aachen 1937 (2nd ed. By Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , 1964), p. 257, no.1032