Ernst Wegner
Ernst Gustav Wilhelm Wegner (born January 16, 1900 in Szymborze , Province of Posen , † June 19, 1945 there ) was a German doctor and politician (NSDAP).
Live and act
Ernst Wegner was born in 1900 as the son of a chemist. In his youth he attended from 1909 to 1912 the school in Köthen, then to 1918 the grammar school in Bernburg.
In the summer of 1918, he volunteered to take part in the First World War . As a member of the Guard Jäger battalion in Potsdam , however, he was only used briefly at the front from September to November 1918.
After Wegner had made up his Abitur at Easter 1919, he studied medicine in Greifswald , Halle , Innsbruck and Munich , where he passed the state examination in 1924 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1925 he established himself as a general practitioner in Kirchberg , Saxony .
Politically, Wegner, who had already participated in the Kapp Putsch with the Ehrhardt Brigade in March 1920 , joined the NSDAP at the end of the 1920s . In the following years he led a local club for them and appeared as a Gauredner . In 1930 he also became a member of the SA , in which he achieved the rank of medical brigade leader in 1938. In the same year he became district chairman of the National Socialist German Medical Association in Saxony. He also became a city councilor and leader of the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Kirchberg city council.
From July 1932 to November 1933 Wegner sat as a member of the NSDAP in the Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 29 (Leipzig).
After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Wegner was appointed State Commissioner for Health in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. In 1934 he was promoted to Ministerial Council there . Furthermore, as rector, he was appointed head of the State Academy for Racial Hygiene, head of the Gauamt für Volksgesundheit and in 1935 head of the German Hygiene Museum . In 1937, at the request of the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner , Wegner was relieved of his activities in the Ministry of the Interior and instead was appointed head of the Medical Association of Saxony. He also acted as head of the academy for medical training and was the official head of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Dresden.
In 1939 Wegner took over the management of the health department in the leadership of the German Labor Front (DAF). In 1941 he became head of the main office for public health (HAVG).
After the end of the war, Wegner's book Rassenhygiene für Jedermann (1934), on which Martin Staemmler and Otto Reche had also contributed, was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone . Wegner himself had written for it: The story as a teacher of nationalistic events , an essay in which the racial mixture and the Jews were made responsible for all problems in history, especially the defeat of 1918: The Jews are the undefeated Wehrmacht after decades of rooting out work cowards, because they did not serve themselves, stabbed in the back, instigated the November Revolution, etc.
Fonts
- On injuries to the pleura dome , Munich 1925.
- Racial hygiene for everyone , Dresden 1934. (2nd edition 1935)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Wegner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Wegner in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wegner, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wegner, Ernst Gustav Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicians and politicians (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szymborze , Poznan Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1945 |
| Place of death | Szymborze , Poznan Province |