Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen

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Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen (born March 31, 1903 in Hamburg , † April 25, 1971 in Cologne ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

The merchant's son finished his school career with a high school diploma and then began studying law and economics. He soon switched to medicine, which he studied in Hamburg, Freiburg, Berlin, Kiel and Tübingen. Approved and Dr. med. After completing his doctorate , he spent his assistant time from 1930 to 1932 with Meinhard von Pfaundler at the University Children's Hospital in Munich and as a senior physician with Bernhard de Rudder from 1932 at the University Children's Hospital in Greifswald, where he completed his habilitation in 1935 . He followed de Rudder in 1935 to the University Children's Hospital in Frankfurt am Main, where he also worked as a senior physician and as a private lecturer .

For the period of National Socialism , he joined in 1935 the Nazi Dozentenbund , 1936 the Nazi Medical Association and in 1937 the NSDAP ( member number at 5,427,160). He was also a member of the NSV . He also worked as a district doctor for the HJ in Hessen-Nassau.

During the Second World War , in 1940 he initially took over the provisional management of the University Children's Hospital in Prague. In 1942 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Prague , where he took over the professorship for paediatrics as the successor to Hermann Mai 1943. In contrast to his predecessor, he refused contact with Czech colleagues; not even when he inspected the clinics of the foundling facility to decide which building should be confiscated for the newly equipped German clinic. Bennholdt-Thomsen was asked whether he would like to take over the management of a children's department at the Prague Children's Clinic as part of the child euthanasia . Although the preparations were already well advanced, it is not certain whether and when a children's department was set up there. Bennholdt-Thomsen was the pediatrician for the children of the State Secretary to the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, Karl Hermann Frank . He was also an advisory doctor to the Reich Youth Leadership in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . He left Prague at the end of the war, and his Czech colleagues found empty rooms.

On April 1, 1945, he was appointed to the vacant chair for paediatrics at the University of Hamburg , but was only able to take up the university office after the end of the war. Since the previous Rudolf Degkwitz arrived in Hamburg at the same time after his escape from the Celle prison and subsequent diving, he could not take up the post of director of the University Children's Clinic. In November 1947 he followed the call to the chair of paediatrics at the University of Cologne , where he also became director of the Cologne-Marienburg University Clinic. In 1968 he retired .

Bennholdt-Thomsen belonged to various scientific associations and was co-editor of pediatric journals. Since 1952 he was a member of the Leopoldina .

Bennholdt-Thomsen married Gretchen Frieda Henny Johanna Eggers in Hamburg in 1930. He died in 1971 at the age of 68 in his apartment in Cologne-Lindenthal .

Fonts (selection)

  • About bleeding into the soft meninges. Hamburg, Med.Diss., 1930.
  • The behavior of an amboceptor specific against the Bordet-Gengou-Bacillus in mother and child (animal study) . Greifswald, Med. Habil.-Schr. 1935 (from: Zeitschrift für Kinderheilkunde Vol. 57, 1935).
  • The endangered child His living space in mass society. Goldmann, Munich 1973.
  • (Ed.) Life and death in the eyes of the child (Documenta Pädiatrica; 5). Hansisches Verl.-Kontor, Lübeck 1979. ISBN 3-87302-015-7

literature

  • Hans Reddemann : 100 years of doctoral degrees and habilitation at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald Children's Hospital, Western Pomerania: in honor of the 550th anniversary of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in the Hanseatic City of Greifswald / Western Pomerania . Greifswald 2004, ISBN 3-00-013319-4 .
  • Hubert Harbauer: Commemorative speech for Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen: delivered on December 3, 1971 in Cologne . Scherpe, Krefeld 1972.
  • Michal Simunek: Camouflaged - Blurred - Forgotten. The life courses of Prof. Dr. med. Franz Xaver Luksch and Prof. Dr. med. Carl Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen in the context of the Nazi euthanasia carried out in the area of ​​the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" . In: Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk (eds.): Universities and colleges during National Socialism and in the early post-war period. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, p. 125ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 1263 of April 26, 1971, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 38
  3. ^ Sascha Topp: Shifting Cultures of Memory: The German Society of Pediatrics in Confrontation of is Nazi Past. In: Volker Roelcke, Sascha Topp, Etienne Lepicard (eds.): Silence, Scapegoats, Self-Reflection: The Shadow of Nazi Medical Crimes on Medicine and Bioethics, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / V & R unipress, Göttingen 2014, p. 162
  4. ^ A b Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , p. 914
  5. ^ Josef Švejcar : Considerations on German pediatrics in the Prague foundling facility . In: Der Kinderarzt 15 (1984) 389-394
  6. ^ Sascha Topp: History as an argument in post-war medicine. Forms of visualization of National Socialist euthanasia between politicization and historiography. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8470-0127-0 , p. 145
  7. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the "Third Reich". Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty , Berlin 1989, p. 93
  8. ^ Member entry by Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bennholdt-Thomsen, Carl-Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1971
Place of death Cologne