Ernst Heinrich Brill

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Ernst Heinrich Brill (born August 6, 1892 in Darmstadt , † May 2, 1945 in Rostock ) was a German physician, university professor and rector of the University of Rostock .

biography

Brill was the son of court assessor Friedrich Brill (1857-1892) and his wife Clara (1860-1919), née Maurer. He graduated from high schools in Darmstadt and Worms by 1912 and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Jena . During the First World War he served in the medical military service as a field medical officer. In Jena , he obtained his doctorate in 1920. med. and completed his habilitation in 1926. From 1922 he was assistant doctor to Bodo Spiethoff and from 1925 senior doctor as well as from 1930 associate professor in the dermatology clinic at Jena University Hospital .

He joined the right steel helmet in 1925 and, in the course of the “ seizure of power ” in 1933, joined the NSDAP (membership number 1.546.909), for which he launched a call for university professors to vote at the end of July 1932. In 1933/34 he was also a member of the SA , in which in 1934 he held the rank of SA Sanitätssturmbannführer. In 1933, against the will of the faculty, he was appointed full professor for skin and venereal diseases at the University of Rostock. From 1934 he was the NSDAP's shop steward at the Rostock Medical Faculty. In 1935/36 he was first prorector , 1936/37 rector of the University of Rostock. The appointment as rector was made against the wishes of the teaching staff by the Nazi Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt . He headed the Dermatological Institute of the University and Polyclinic in Rostock as chief physician and then as director . From 1934 he was an assessor at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court in Mecklenburg. From December 1935 to April 1937 he was the Gaudozentenbundführer of the NS-Dozentbund in Reichsgau Mecklenburg . In 1937 he became a member of the SS (membership number 284.121), where he rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer .

From 1939 he served in World War II in the Army as a medical officer, then as Chief Medical and from 1944 as Oberfeldarzt , of which 1,939 to 1,940 on the front and then as a consultant dermatologist at the Military District II (Mecklenburg and Pomerania) and in a military hospital in Rostock.

He and his wife are believed to have committed suicide in 1945 , but the bodies were never found. He was married and had two children.

Further memberships

  • Member and treasurer of the German Dermatological Society

Honors

  • 1941: Honorary member of the Italian Dermatological Society

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 28.
  2. ↑ Helmut Heise: Ernst-Heinrich Brill . In: 100 Years of the University Dermatology Clinic and Polyclinic Rostock , Rostock 2002. Prehistory to the appointment of the clinic in 1932/33 ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Hannes Pingel: The rectorate under Professor Ernst-Heinrich Brill 1936/37 , in G. Boeck and H.-U. Lammel (ed.): The University of Rostock in the years 1933-1945 , Rostocker Studien zur Universitätsgeschichte 21, 2nd edition, Rostock 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-9239-4 , page 92
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Ernst Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and professor at the University of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945
Place of death Rostock