Eberhard Kitzing

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Eberhard Kitzing (born April 30, 1911 in Berlin ; † October 8, 1941 ) was a German doctor and Hitler Youth functionary. As an employee of the HJ health service, he was involved in the propagation of the HJ health policy.

Live and act

Kitzing joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1932 (membership number 1,079,831). Since August 1932 he belonged to the Hitler Youth (HJ). From July 1934 he worked full-time for the Hitler Youth. From 1935 he headed the main department of health security in the health department of the Reich Youth Leadership (RJF). In 1939, he was promoted to head of department for health education and propaganda and deputy head of the office for health of the RJF.

Kitzing completed a field shear training and was used as a doctor in World War II . Promoted to Oberbannführer in November 1939, he joined the SS in June 1940 (No. 393.308) and was SS-Untersturmführer in the SS Medical Office . During a war mission he had a fatal accident in the Wehrmacht .

Kitzing published health advice literature on behalf of the HJ. He put the practical medical policy at the service of the state leadership and demanded that the “health work of the youth doctor should be clearly emphasized as part of the ideological educational work of the National Socialist movement”. After Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach declared 1939 the “year of compulsory health”, Kitzing formulated shortly before his death in 1941 that every German “has the duty at all times to live in such a way that he remains healthy and productive. Illness is a failure. ”The historian Michael Buddrus sees the Hitler Youth's“ obligation to health ”as a concept aimed at establishing a new image of man. The Hitler Youth social engineers had deliberately forced a depersonalization in order to expropriate the children and young people entrusted to them from their own bodies for the benefit of the national community.

Fonts

  • First aid in the event of accidents for SA, SS, Hitler Youth, labor service and volunteers. H. Denckler, Berlin 1935.
  • How do I get the Reichs Sports Badge? Denckler, Berlin 1935.
  • The emergency bandage and its application. Denckler, Berlin 1936.
  • First aid in the company in the event of accidents and injuries. Denckler, Berlin 1936.
  • Eberhard Kitzing: How do I get the German Lifesaving Badge? Denckler, Berlin 1936.
  • The catering in tent camps of the Hitler Youth. Thieme, Leipzig 1938.
  • Resilience through personal hygiene. You have a duty to be healthy! v. Arnim, Berlin 1939.
  • as editor: You have a duty to be healthy! Health campaign of the Hitler Youth. Reich Youth Leadership, Berlin 1939.
  • Health education. A handbook for youth educators u. Parents. ed. by Robert Hördemann . Reichsgesundheitsverlag, Berlin 1941.
  • Healthy through proper nutrition. NSDAP, Berlin 1939.
  • and George Reid: Health Management of the HJ. Alcohol and tobacco. Reichsgesundheitsverlag, Berlin 1940.

literature

  • Thomas Beddies: “You have a duty to be healthy!”. The health service of the Hitler Youth 1933–1945. Habilitation thesis . Be.Bra Wiss.-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937233-62-8 .
  • Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , p. 922; see. Deviating from this, date of death 8 December 1941. Ibid., p. 1166.
  2. ^ Eberhard Kitzing: Development of the health service in the state and party. In: Eberhard Kitzing, Robert Hördemann (ed.): Education for health . Berlin 1941, p. 325, cit. after: Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , p. 916.
  3. ^ Kitzing: Development of the health service in the state and party. quoted after: Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , pp. 326-328, p. 922.
  4. ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , pp. 921f.
personal data
SURNAME Kitzing, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kitzing, Wolfgang Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and Hitler Youth functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1941