Ernst Gadermann

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Ernst Gadermann (* 25. December 1913 in Ronsdorf ; † 26. November 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German medical officer , last Oberstabsarzt the Air Force of the Armed Forces . He became famous in the Second World War , when he was a gunner of Hans-Ulrich Rudel this on February 8, 1945 after the wounded and emergency landing before bleeding to death saved.

Life

Gadermann joined the Air Force in 1941, where he served as a group and squadron doctor in Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 on the Eastern Front . In addition to his medical work, he soon served in the squadron staff . Later he was also an observer and gunner in the III. Group of his squadron and from May 1944 permanently assigned to the crew of Hans-Ulrich Rudel. On October 17, 1943, he was awarded the German Cross in Gold and on August 19, 1944, he was the only doctor in the Air Force to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross after more than 600 combat missions in the air force . On February 9, 1945, his machine was shot down by an anti-aircraft gun near Lebus . After the emergency landing, he saved Rudel from bleeding to death after a severe lower leg injury. Gadermann himself then served at an air inspection agency in Braunschweig until the end of the war. In total, Gadermann flew over 850 combat missions.

After the war Gadermann worked as a cardiovascular specialist in Hamburg. It was there in 1947, together with Adolf Metzner, that he developed the basics of the first telemetric measurements of the EKG in athletes. In 1972 he was the sports medical director at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Gadermann died of a heart attack on November 26, 1973 . He was buried on December 7, 1973 in his hometown of Wuppertal.

Reception and criticism

At the medical academy of the Bundeswehr , next to the Auditorium Maximum named after Hans Scholl , there is a memorial wall with knight's cross bearers of the medical service, on which Gadermann is also listed. The theologian and author of articles in the magazines Ossietzky and antifa , which is published by the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime VVN-BDA , which is monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , as well as in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland . Jakob Knab said in this regard that Peter Bamm's saying does not apply to Gadermann that the "invisible flag of humanity" was flying over the medical service and the hospitals on the eastern front.

Publications

  • Changes in the dry blood substance after a urea administration of 3 g per os during a 4-week bioclimatic lake cure in Wyk a / F. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1940.
  • Clinical arterial pulse writing: textbook and atlas of bloodless sphygmography. Barth, 1964. (with Horst Jungmann).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 324.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopos.org
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / antifa.vvn-bda.de
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / antifa.vvn-bda.de
  5. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/78754.tabus-und-abschottung.html?sstr=jakob%7Cknab
  6. ↑ Roland Lory: In the spirit of tradition. The Bundeswehr Medical Academy pays homage to Wehrmacht soldiers. Neues Deutschland , April 30, 2012. ( published on the website of the Peace Research Working Group )

literature

  • Ernst Obermaier: The Luftwaffe Knight's Cross Bearers - Stuka and Attack Airmen 1939–1945. Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz 1976, ISBN 3-87341-021-4 , pp. 32 and 108.
  • Georg Brütting : That was the German Stuka aces 1939–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-87943-433-6 , p. 197.
  • "Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries", Section GK, Version: April 1, 2017. By: Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey
personal data
SURNAME Gadermann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Chief Medical Officer of the German Air Force in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronsdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1973
Place of death Hamburg