Eduard Schütt (doctor)

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Eduard Schütt (born December 28, 1875 in Frankfurt (Main) ; † July 28, 1948 in Laufen, Upper Bavaria ) was a German doctor , coroner and racial hygienist .

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Schütt studied medicine at the University of Erlangen , received his doctorate in 1902 and then became a doctor at the Osnabrück insane asylum . In 1905 he was a ship's doctor at Norddeutscher Lloyd , Bremen. He then settled down as a doctor in Griesheim and moved to Bacharach in 1910 , where he stayed until at least 1918. He took part in the First World War as a military doctor . In 1919 he entered the public health service. In 1924 he passed the district medical exam , worked as a district doctor in St. Goar and became a medical assessor in Dortmund the following year . Between 1926 and 1933 he worked as a medical advisor for Barmen and Elberfeld .

Schütt was particularly noticeable for his commitment to racial hygiene . He was a member of the German Society for Blood Group Research and Race Biological Blood Group Research, founded in 1926 . In 1927 he was one of the co-founders of a eugenic working group in Elberfeld, which in 1929 became a local branch of the German Society for Racial Hygiene as the "Eugenic Society Barmen-Elberfeld" . He joined the NSDAP in 1930 as the first Prussian medical officer . In autumn 1932 he became an advisor to the NSDAP party leadership and also set up an advice center for genetic and racial care at the health department of Barmen and Elberfeld. Furthermore, he was particularly noticeable for his lectures, in which he propagated a fight against crime from the hereditary and racial standpoint.

In 1934, Schütt joined the new Reich Health Office as acting director of the “genetic and racial maintenance” department . At the same time he became a lecturer at the State Academy of Public Health in Berlin. In the "Department L (Hereditary Medicine)" of the Reich Health Office, all matters relating to hereditary biological legislation, such as the reports of the hereditary health courts and the marriage loans, were processed and collected. Furthermore, in 1935 Schütt succeeded Otmar von Verschuer as head of the “ Polyclinic for Hereditary and Racial Care” at the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Haus in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Together with the psychiatrist Fred Dubitscher , Schütt was supposed to set up a file for "all hereditary illnesses, hereditary problems and the high-quality". He also prepared reports for courts, for example in questions of "descent" or in cases of alleged " racial disgrace " and for the Reich Office for Family Research . In the polyclinic, research was also carried out on " anti-social clans". Schütt was also a member of the Prussian State Health Council and was a medical assessor at the 1st Senate of the Hereditary Health Supreme Court at the Berlin Superior Court .

Schütt retired before the end of World War II .

Publications

  • Eduard Schütt: General pharmacodynamic effects of toxins and ferments. Univ., Med. Diss. Erlangen, 1902. Metzler, Stuttgart 1902.
  • Eduard Schütt, Theodor Viernstein : Criminal biology as the basis of joint work by lawyers and medical professionals on the development of criminal law. The fight against crime from a demographic, racial, anthropological and hereditary biological point of view. Thieme, Leipzig 1933. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation after the end of the Second World War .
  • Eduard Schütt, Nathanael Wollenweber (ed.): The doctor of the public health service . The green brain. Thieme, Stuttgart, DNB  014520400 (1937–1942; 1950–1967 [?]).
  • Ferdinand von Neureiter , Friedrich Pietrusky , Eduard Schütt: Concise dictionary of forensic medicine and scientific criminalistics. Springer, Berlin 1940.

literature

  • Alfons Labisch , Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health Care System" of July 3, 1934. Lines of development and developmental moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany . (= Series of publications by the Academy for Public Health , 13, 1.2) Düsseldorf 1985, xxxi, 601 pages in 2 volumes, ISSN  0172-2131
  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , pp. 173-176, 233.
  2. ↑ polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Schütt, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, coroner and racial hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Main)
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1948
Place of death Laufen , Upper Bavaria