Ferdinand Roth (physician)

Ferdinand Roth (born August 22, 1908 in Neunkirchen ; † November 21, 1966 ) was a German pathologist .

Life

Roth first attended a Protestant elementary school and after graduating from the Realgymnasium Betzdorf in 1929, studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1919 to 1932 , at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1932 and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms from 1932 to 1934 -University of Bonn . From 1922 Roth was a member of the German Gymnastics Association . From 1929 to 1936 he was demonstrably a member of the dutiful fraternity Danubia Munich .

He put 1934, the state examination and was 1935 in Bonn with a thesis A Contribution to the casuistry of spermatic cord tumors to Dr. med. PhD . He then became a research assistant at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Greifswald . In 1936 he went back to Bonn, most recently in 1943 as senior assistant . After his habilitation in 1941, he became a private lecturer for general pathology and pathological anatomy at the medical faculty in Bonn .

Roth did not join the National Socialist German Medical Association and forbade his wife from membership in similar organizations. According to his own statements after 1945, he was never a member of any party; he saw himself as a DNVP supporter in the early 1930s . Contrary to his own statements, he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 201.819) in 1933 and took part in a military sports camp and, from 1938, in military exercises. From 1936 he was used as an SS doctor, u. a. in training camps, most recently with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,307,532). In 1936 he was admitted to the National Socialist People's Welfare (membership number 5884989) and later to the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (membership number 4663). In 1939 he became a member of the German Red Cross . Since April 1940 he was a medical officer of the Wehrmacht after previous UK post . He became an assistant doctor and finally released as a staff doctor in the reserve in 1943. Roth was holder of the War Merit Crosses II and I Classes donated by Hitler in 1939 and the medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42 (East Medal).

After the Second World War he was re-licensed as a doctor and in 1949 became an adjunct professor in Bonn. From 1959 he was head of the pathological institute of the Berlin-Spandau municipal hospital . From the 1960s onwards, after his re- habilitation at the Free University of Berlin, he held an unscheduled professorship for general pathology and pathological anatomy . He was a member of the German Society for Pathology and the German Veterinary Medical Society as well as the Wilhelm Busch Society . He published u. a. on the subjects of vascular malformation , malignancy , nephropathy , silicosis and typhus . Roth had been married to a doctor since 1937.

literature

• Ralf Forsbach : The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” . Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5 , p. 645 f. (Chapter: The Re-Admission of Young SS Members. The Cases of Ferdinand Roth and Peter Röttgen )
• Helmut Lüchtrath: Ferdinand Roth (8-22-1908-11-21-1966) . In: Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology , 51st annual conference (1967), pp. 446–448.