Ernst wood laborer
Ernst Holzlöhner (born February 23, 1899 in Insterburg ( East Prussia ), † June 14, 1945 ) was a German physiologist , university professor and National Socialist .
biography
Holzlöhner was a private lecturer and senior physician with Wilhelm Trendelenburg at the Physiological Institute of the University of Berlin . In 1932 he was made a non-official associate professor . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and became a lecturer at the Berlin University. Holzlöhner later became an SS storm leader. In 1934 Holzlöhner was given a full professorship for physiology at the University of Kiel . During this time he became the Lecturer Association Leader at the University of Kiel and the Deputy Gaudozenten Leader in Schleswig-Holstein. Together with his assistants Sigmund Rascher and Erich Finke , he carried out hypothermia experiments on behalf of the Luftwaffe in Dachau concentration camp from August 1942 , in which prisoners were deliberately hypothermic and then reheated using various methods. At the conference on medical issues in distress and winter death on October 26 and 27, 1942, he gave a lecture on the results of the cold tests. In April 1945 Holzlöhner was appointed rector of the University of Kiel.
Timber laborers were captured and interrogated by British soldiers after the end of the war. After the interrogation, he committed suicide in June 1945.
literature
- Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 78-79.
- Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-039306-6 .
- Ernst Klee: The personal lexicon for the Third Reich - who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 268-269.
- Karl-Werner Ratschko : Three medical professors from Kiel in the “Third Reich”, Ernst Holzlöhner, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Enno Freerksen. In: C. Cornelißen, C. Mish (ed.): Science at the border, Kiel University in National Socialism . Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0240-4 , pp. 135-150.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Holzlöhner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
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↑ Laborjournal online: What happened in Sudelfeld? ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 231f. - ↑ Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigel: Dachau Trials: Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945–1948. Procedure, results, aftermath. Wallstein Verlag, 2007, p. 143.
- ↑ Dachau Concentration Camp - The “SS Murderer's School”. on: stern.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timber laborer, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Insterburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1945 |