Carl Friedrich Wendt

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Carl Friedrich Wendt (born March 3, 1912 in Danzig , † November 22, 1988 in Heidelberg ) was a German psychiatrist , neurologist and university professor who was involved in Nazi euthanasia research.

Life

Wendt studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen , Jena , Königsberg , Berlin , Heidelberg and Munich . After passing the medical state examination in Heidelberg in 1936, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for medical research . From there he moved to the Heidelberg University Psychiatric Clinic in 1939 .

During the Second World War , Wendt, previously a troop doctor with the Hitler Youth (HJ), was officially released from military service in the Wehrmacht . To the Dr. med. He was involved in research on euthanasia on children under the direction of the Heidelberg University Neurological Clinic Carl Schneider . In this context, from the beginning of July 1942 to the end of March 1943, he was seconded as a "metabolism expert" to a research department at the Wiesloch sanatorium , which was headed by his superior Schneider ; this activity was remunerated with 150 RM . Wendt was supposed to create "a collection of material about the endocrine dysfunction in the context of developmentally related physical dysplasias , especially on the basis of idiot research ". The materials came from murdered children from the Eichberg state sanatorium and nursing home , which cooperated with Heidelberg euthanasia research.

After the end of the war he became professor of psychiatry and neurology at Heidelberg University and retired in 1978 . After details of Heidelberg's Nazi euthanasia research became public, the Heidelberg public prosecutor's office started investigations against Wendt and his doctor colleagues at the time, Hans-Joachim Rauch and Friedrich Schmieder . The preliminary investigation was closed on May 16, 1986 by the Heidelberg public prosecutor's office, as there was "insufficient suspicion" of having "been involved in the killing of even one patient or of having known the planned fate of the patients examined". According to witnesses, doctors and nurses in Heidelberg knew that patients had been killed on the Eichberg. The public prosecutor's office did not consider this to be established knowledge, but rather rumors. Willi Dreßen , head of the Ludwigsburg central office , considered it “difficult to understand that under these circumstances the three doctors missed what their work in the research department was about” and it was completely implausible that the accused did nothing supposed to have heard of the National Socialist murders of the sick.

Wendt was married to Gertrud, née Helfferich. The couple had a daughter.

Fonts

  • About the lowering of the basal metabolic rate through the brown fatty tissue of hibernating hedgehogs and through Prolan. In: Hoppe-Seyler's journal for physiological chemistry . Vol. 279 (1943), H. 3-6, S. 153-168, doi: 10.1515 / bchm2.1943.279.3-6.153 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1942).
  • Psychotherapy in the abbreviated process. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1948; 2nd, completely revised edition: Basics of a psychotherapy of understanding. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1956.
  • Psychotherapy of sleep disorders in the neurologist's office hours: Presentation at the 2nd conference of the German Society for Psychiatry and Neurology on October 7, 1956 in Bad Neuheim. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1957.
  • Psychopathology and psychotherapy. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1962.
  • Interpretation and Reality. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-01987-3 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WHO'S who in medicine , Volume 2, Who's Who-Book & Pub, 1981, p. 279.
  2. ^ A b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 668.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 177f.
  4. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 668.
  5. ^ Willi Dreßen: The Heidelberg case against Rauch u. a. - attempt a legal evaluation. In: Christoph Mundt, Gerrit Hohendorf, Maike Rotzoll: Psychiatric research and Nazi “euthanasia”. Contributions to a memorial event at the Psychiatric University Clinic Heidelberg Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-88423-165-0 , pp. 91–96, here p. 93.
  6. ↑ Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. 12th edition (1955). P. 1254.
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor, participant in Nazi euthanasia research
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1988
Place of death Heidelberg