Ferdinand Claussen

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Ferdinand Claussen , also Ferdinand Claußen (* July 7, 1899 in Mölln ; † January 9, 1971 ) was a German physician, racial hygienist and university professor at the time of National Socialism .

Life

After attending high school in Ratzeburg, Claussen passed his Abitur in 1917 and then took part in the First World War as a soldier . After the end of the war, he studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg , Munich , Leipzig and Kiel . From 1922 he worked at the physico-chemical department of the University of Kiel. Claussen received his doctorate in Kiel in 1924 with the dissertation "On a clinically useful method for measuring swelling pressure in the blood" to become a Dr. med. and published with H. Schade sen. on the "molecular pathology of inflammation" and "oncotic pressure". From 1927 he worked as an assistant and later senior physician at the I. Medical Clinic in Munich, where he in 1932 with the essay "On the diuresis of heart disease" habilitation was.

From 1931 Claussen was a member of the NSDAP . He was also a member of the SA and the NSDÄB . Claussen was employed in Frankfurt am Main from 1935 as a senior physician under Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Research there, where he was also a lecturer in the subjects of internal medicine , hereditary biology and racial hygiene.

From 1939 Claussen was associate professor for genetic biology at the University of Cologne and director of the local institute for genetic biology and racial hygiene, which was inaugurated in the spring of 1940.

“Hereditary biology shows the immense importance of racial mixing from the history of peoples. As our people have learned, it lies especially in the existence of the Jewish people, whose way of life is rootless parasitism. "

- Ferdinand Claussen in the spring of 1940 during the inauguration of the institute

Claussen's research focus was on the genetic pathology of internal diseases. In 1940 Claussen was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a doctor . During his war-related absence during the Second World War , Claussen was represented as director of the institute by Wolfgang Bauermeister . A successor to Verschuer by Claussen, planned by the University of Frankfurt in 1942, did not materialize.

After the end of the war, Claussen was unable to continue his work as a university lecturer. From 1948 to 1964 he headed the internal department of the Waldbröl Hospital. Claussen died on January 9, 1971 of a heart attack.

literature

  • Frank Golczewki: Cologne University Teacher and National Socialism , Cologne 1988.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • In memoriam: Ferdinand Claussen 1899–1971 . In: Society for Physical Anthropology, German Society for Race Research: Anthropologischer Anzeiger , Volume 33, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (E. Nägele), 1972, p. 157

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Anthropologischer Anzeiger , Volume 33, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (E. Nägele), 1972, p. 157. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 94f gives the date of death January 23, 1971
  2. ↑ a b c In memoriam: Ferdinand Claussen 1899–1971 . In: Society for Physical Anthropology, German Society for Race Research: Anthropologischer Anzeiger , Volume 33, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (E. Nägele), 1972, p. 157
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 94f
  4. ↑ Benoit Massîn: Anthropology and Human Genetics in National Socialism or: How do German scientists write their own history of science . In: Heidrun Kaupen-Haas and Christian Saller (editors): “Scientific Racism - Analyzes of Continuity in Human and Natural Sciences” . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, pp. 12–64, ISBN 3-593-36228-7 , p. 59
  5. ↑ Alexander von Schwerin: Experimentalization of the human being: The geneticist Hans Nachtsheim and the comparative hereditary pathology 1920-1945 . Göttingen, Wallstein 2004, ISBN 3-89244-773-X , p. 234.
  6. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 94f.
  7. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Claussen, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claussen, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, race hygienist and university professor at the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mölln
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1971