Axel Brenner

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Axel Brenner (born November 17, 1889 in Linz , died November 1, 1944 there ) was an Austrian doctor and urologist .

In the National Socialist German Reich he became head of the General Hospital in Linz . "In 1938 he took over the hospital department and the management of compulsory medical training in the Office for Public Health of the NSDAP".

After the annexation of Austria (March 13, 1938), the Nazi regime was also able to put the theories of the racial researchers and racial hygienists into practice in the Upper Danube Gau . The basis for this was the law passed in 1933 for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . At the Linz General Hospital, Brenner was one of five doctors who were "authorized" to perform forced sterilization .

Biography until 1938

Axel Brenner attended the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster and studied medicine in Vienna. Since 1908 he was a member of the Vienna fraternity Germania . He received his doctorate on July 24, 1914. He was a soldier in World War I on the Russian and Italian fronts, where he received the Golden Cross of Merit . On February 25, 1918, he married Martha Biro (December 30, 1896 to October 11, 1974), daughter of a Viennese industrialist. There were four children from this marriage.

From 1918 to 1921, Brenner was an assistant doctor in Vienna. In 1921 he returned to his hometown Linz and opened a private urology practice. At the same time, from this time on , he worked as an independent doctor at the General Hospital in Linz. In 1923 he was appointed head of the newly established urological ambulance at the Linz General Hospital. In this office he succeeded his father, government councilor Alexander Brenner (February 22, 1859-27 October 1936), who had headed the General Hospital in Linz from 1888 to 1928. Alexander Brenner, surgeon and Billroth student, also a German national fraternity, has modernized the General Hospital with his surgical and organizational brilliance, but not without his German national conviction, the way from a helping medicine to a "racial hygiene" serving Nazi health medicine in the Having prepared “Ostmark”.

In National Socialism

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the National Socialist German Reich , Brenner, who had been a primary physician since 1933 , was confirmed on March 30, 1938 as provisional director of the Linz General Hospital. On May 1, 1938, he joined the NSDAP . "Director Primary Axel Brenner was both a hospital clerk and head of compulsory medical training in the Gauamt für Volksgesundheit (Gau Office for Public Health), a top political functionary in Nazi medicine."

In his various party political functions, Brenner campaigned for the spread and implementation of Nazi ideology . It can therefore also be assumed that he not only supported the practice of Nazi genetic health policy, but actively supported it. This included the implementation of compulsory sterilization of so-called " hereditary diseases ", which he had been entitled to since 1940. From 1941 to 1945, 76 men and 56 women were sterilized at the Linz General Hospital. One of these operations was also verifiably carried out by Brenner. Regarding the other operations, there is no evidence, as the medical files of the General Hospital have not been preserved and the Gau archive was destroyed.

In 1940 the General Hospital Linz was expanded to include the neighboring "House of Mercy" after the previous owner, the St. Vinzenz Verein, had been expropriated. “The incurable and often also disabled patients were divided into different custody institutions, including a. the Gau sanatorium and nursing home Niedernhart and the Gschwendt affiliated with it. To be terminally ill was tantamount to a death sentence in the Nazi state. ”The rooms of the former House of Mercy were rededicated as offices for the“ followers ”, the Nazi term for the hospital's staff. There is no known attempt to protect neither the former residents of the House of Mercy nor the former psychiatric patients of the Linz General Hospital from access by the euthanasia doctor Rudolf Lonauer and his deputy Georg Renno - both of whom work at the Linz General Hospital.

Seriously ill, Brenner had to relinquish the management of Akh Linz in August 1944. He died in Linz on November 1, 1944.

Fonts

  • with Oswald Schwarz: Investigations into the physiology and pathology of the bladder function. VIII. Mitt. The dynamics of the bubble. Magazine f. urol. Surgeon. Vol. 8, H. 1/2, pp. 32-62, 1921.
  • Report of the general public hospital of the city of Linz for the years 1936–1940. Archive of the City of Linz , Linz 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Embacher: From liberal to national: The Linz association system 1848–1938. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1991. Linz 1992, p. 109, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  2. ^ Josef Goldberger: Nazi health policy in Linz and Upper Danube 1938-1945. In: Mayhofer Fritz, Schuster Walter: National Socialism in Linz. Volume 1, Archive of the City of Linz, 2002. pp. 799–906.
  3. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Guggenberger Edmund: Upper Austrian Medical Chronicle. Linz 1962, p. 149.
  5. ^ Political certificate of good conduct from the NSDAP Gauleitung Oberdonau. Gaupersonalamt Hauptstelle Political Assessment. Membership number 6,374,617.
  6. ^ Hahn-Oberthaler Verena, Obermüller Gerhard: 150 years of health in the center. Linz 2015. p. 117.
  7. ↑ Birgit Kepplinger: Municipal social policy. In: Fritz Mayhofer, Walter Schuster: National Socialism in Linz. Volume 1, Archive of the City of Linz, 2002. P. 783ff.
  8. ↑ Verena Hahn-Oberthaler, Gerhard Obermüller: 150 years of health in the center. Linz 2015. p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and urologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1944
Place of death Linz