Bernhard Hörmann

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Bernhard Hörmann 1933

Bernhard Hörmann (born September 20, 1889 ; † February 4, 1977 in Munich ) was a German doctor, dentist, politician ( NSDAP ) and Nazi health care official.

Life

Hörmann did his military service as a medical sergeant. Initially, he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the Sturmabteilung (SA) as early as 1920 . He was a member of the NSDAP from August 1920 to 1923 and again from 1928 to 1945 after the party was banned.

In 1921 , Hörmann qualified as a dentist and obtained his doctorate . He then studied Economic and Law and was having qualified in 1924 graduate in business . He received his medical license in 1925 and then worked as a general practitioner and dentist. In 1929 he was a founding member of the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB) and its managing director from 1929 to 1931. In 1932 he became the first head of the public health department in the Reich government of the NSDAP. After the Reichstag election in March 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag as a member of the NSDAP . In 1933 he also became Reich Commissioner in the Reich Ministry of the Interior for all healing.

In August 1933, after the dissolution of the Public Health Department, he was removed from office and dismissed with the “thanks of the movement”. The department was replaced by the Advisory Board for Public Health as well as the later Main Office for Public Health of the NSDAP. Hörmann remained active in various positions within the main office, but was never able to return to his old position in health care. In 1938 he was appointed head of the Reich Office for the Main Office for Public Health for the four-year plan . He was also head of the Reich Working Group on Food from the Forest. As part of this activity, he published a series of brochures from 1939 on medicinal and nutrient plants native to Germany. His two-volume main work, Plant Atlas , was published in 1940 as an eight-volume series of plant pocket books. Later he also became a clerk for biological questions in the Central Office for Public Health. He also worked in the Reich Office against Abuses in Health Care and in the main office for combating occultism, established in 1942. In addition, from 1942 he was the “advisory hygienist of the Todt Organization ”.

Works

  • German house tea plants: 20 domestic house tea plants . Munich: Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer 1939.
  • Edible wild fruits: 20 local wild fruits as food and Remedies . Munich: Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer 1939.
  • Wild vegetables and salads part 1 and 2 . Series of publications healing and nourishing forces from forest and field. Munich: Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer 1939.
  • Plant Atlas: For collecting and utilizing native nutrient and medicinal plants from forests and fields, parts 1 and 2 . Munich: Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer 1940.
  • Plant pocket booklet . Munich: G. Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer 1940.
    • Plant pocket book 1: Wild vegetables and salads
    • Plant pocket booklet 2: German domestic tea plants / Edible wild fruits
    • Plant pocket booklet 3: Edible and poison mushrooms
    • Plant pocket booklet 4: German aromatic plants
    • Plant Pocket Book 5: German Medicinal Plants 1
    • Plant pocket book 6: German medicinal plants 2
    • Plant pocket book 7: German medicinal plants 3
    • Plant Pocket Book 8: German Medicinal Plants 4
  • Our natural vitamin C dispenser . Munich: Verlag der Pflanzenwerke 1941.
  • The sea buckthorn berry (Hippóphae͏̈ rhamnoides L.): the best natural source of vitamin C; Occurrence, cultivation and utilization . Munich: Verlag der Pflanzenwerke 1941.

literature

  • Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health Care" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172-2131 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Winfried Suss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56719-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Winfried Suss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 , Munich 2003, p. 468
  2. ^ A b Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p 431
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): "... totally finished with National Socialism?". The never-ending story of dentistry under National Socialism . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-938304-21-1 , p. 49 .
  4. ^ Organizations, institutions, movements . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . No. 5 . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027878-1 , p. 306 f .
  5. ↑ German-language miniature brochure series: plant pocket booklet G. Franz'sche Buchdruckerei G. Emil Mayer / Verlag der Pflanzenwerke. Miniaturbuch.de, accessed on February 24, 2017 .
  6. ^ Jan Grossarth: Diet in National Socialism: Medicinal herbs. Frankfurter Allgemeine , September 13, 2013, accessed on February 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hörmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, dentist, politician (NSDAP) and Nazi health care official
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1889
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1977
Place of death Munich