Erich Röper (doctor)

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Erich Richard Hubert Röper (born October 11, 1884 in Rostock , † September 15, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German neurologist and politician .

Life

family

Erich Röper's father was the engineer Hubert Röper (1845–1918), who was a senator in Rostock from 1883 to 1911. Röper's mother was a baptized Jew.

In 1912 Röper married Lotte Riedel, a daughter of the surgeon Bernhard Riedel , who died of cancer in 1930. They had six children. One son was Burkhardt Röper (1915–1991) , who later became a professor and founding member of the Philosophical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University .

In 1934 Röper married the theologian Anita Hildebrandt (1908–1993). He had four more children with her. The two twins Friedrich Franz (* 1941); also specialist book author; and Harald Christian (* 1941) became pastor and jointly founded the non-profit Pfarrer Röper Foundation . The eldest son from this second marriage, Erich (* 1939), became a law professor and CDU politician.

Career and work

Erich Röper attended the Realgymnasium in Rostock, began studying medicine in Rostock in 1905 , but did not resume studies until 1907 and passed his state examination in mid-1910 . During the medical internship he worked in Jena , first seven months at the psychiatric clinic and later as an assistant doctor at the mental hospital of the University of Jena with Privy Councilor Otto Binswanger . In 1911 he received his doctorate at the suggestion of Binswanger and with the support of Hans Berger .

In the First World War to Hamburg commanded, he headed with short breaks nerves Division of the Naval hospital in veddel , where he worked with the study of influences in war wounds. In 1915 he worked there as a senior marine assistant physician assigned to Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 76 of the 10th Replacement Division . In 1916 he was transferred from the position of battalion doctor to the reserve hospital in Siegen in the position of staff doctor . In 1919 Röper settled as a neurologist in Hamburg , from 1922 in his own house, Alsterterrasse 9.

In 1920 Röper joined the German People's Party (DVP) . He held various functions, from 1930 to 1931 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament . As the last state chairman, he had to dissolve the DVP in 1933. Before 1933 and after the Second World War , he was an assessor at the medical arbitration tribunal of the Upper Insurance Office.

In 1933 he had temporarily taken over the management of the medical association , but in the same year as a " half-Jew " was briefly excluded from the association of statutory health insurance physicians by the National Socialists in 1933 . For the National Socialists his psychoanalysis was "Jewish", "effeminate", "Marxist". He was later re-admitted to the health insurances to a limited extent and mainly treated Jewish patients. After 1945 he was therefore supported by Jews who had emigrated to the USA . However, Röper also treated party members, one of whom saved him from the Neuengamme concentration camp in August 1944 .

As one of the few unaffected doctors, Röper and his colleagues Dr. Fuchs and Dr. Friedrich Thieding the medical association, which in 1946 became the state office of the KVD . Until shortly before his death he was on the admissions committee of the statutory health insurance physicians.

In August 1945, Röper and the DVP Senator a. D. Hermann Carl Vering founded the association of "Members and Friends of the German People's Party". From April 1946 you worked with Paul de Chapeaurouge in the Father-City League , which later became part of the CDU and FDP. Röper became a member of the FDP.

Among other things, Röper was president of the Hamburg Goethe Society for many years and was a member of the Society of German Neurologists . Since 1914 he was a member of the Jena Society for Medicine and Natural Science .

Works (selection)

  • Successful healing in neurasthenia . Dissertation , special print from the monthly journal for psychiatry and neurology, Volume XXX, 1911
  • Demonstration of the Hamburg maritime hospital . Munich Medical Weekly , No. 7, 1915
  • About gunshot wounds to the bowel . Munich Medical Weekly, No. 7, 1915
  • A new stretcher for the wounded . German military medical journal, ES Mittler & Sohn , 1916, p. 45 ff.
  • For the prognosis of brain shots . Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift, No. 4, 1917
  • Who should be the leader? 10 political essays u. Reden, Bubendey & Kober, Hamburg 1920.
  • Two political lectures by Dr. Röper. Printed by: Hermann, Hamburg 1918.
  • Inferior and fragile people in the modern struggle for existence. Lecture at the medical association in Hamburg, R. Schoetz, Berlin 1931.

literature

  • Sebastian Merkel: Erich Röper, doctor. In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 158–159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who's who in Germany . Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, 1974, pp. 1390 ( google.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Burkhardt Röper. Catalog of the German National Library, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anita Röper. Catalog of the German National Library, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ Friedrich Franz Röper. Catalog of the German National Library, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Erich Röper. Catalog of the German National Library, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ See the entry of Erich Röper's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  7. ↑ a b c d Volker Wahl and Margit Hartleb: Nietzsche's Jena medical record on the move . In: Weimar – Jena: The big city . tape 4 , no. 1 . Vopelius, 2011, p. 82 .
  8. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany): Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin . 1911, p. 213 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  9. ↑ N. Guleke: The gunshot wounds of the skull in the current war . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-37874-8 , pp. 187 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  10. ^ Society of German Nerve Doctors: Negotiation of the Society of German Nerve Doctors . FCW Vogel., P. 39 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Munich medical weekly . 1915, p. 53 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Bavarian Medical Journal . 7th year edition. No. 10 , 1952, pp. 150 .
  13. ^ Thomas Gerst: Medical professional organization and professional politics in Germany 1945-1955 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08056-9 , pp. 29 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism . Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-48744-0 , pp. 79 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  15. ^ Thomas Gerst: Medical professional organization and professional politics in Germany 1945-1955 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08056-9 , pp. 30 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Helmut Stubbe-da Luz: From the "Working Group" to the Big City Party: 40 Years of the Christian Democratic Union in Hamburg (1945-1985) . State Political Society Hamburg, 1985, p. 80 ( google.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism . Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-48744-0 , pp. 135 ( google.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Jena Journal for Medicine and Science . 1919 ( google.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
  19. ↑ Munich medical weekly . 1915, p. 206 ff . ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Röper, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röper, Erich Richard Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicians and politicians (DVP, FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1957
Place of death Hamburg