Ferdinand Wiethold
Ferdinand Wiethold (born December 24, 1893 in Bocholt ; † April 17, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.
Life
Ferdinand Wiethold completed a medical degree at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Kiel, Münster and Munich , which he graduated with a state examination in 1918. At the University of Frankfurt am Main he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He spent his internship at the Pathological Institute at the University of Frankfurt, at the Prussian Hygiene Institute in Landsberg an der Warthe and at the Rostock University Psychological Clinic. He then worked as an adjunct assistant at the Forensic Medicine Institute at the University of Wroclaw . From 1926 he was an assistant at the Forensic Medicine Institute at the University of Bonn under Victor Müller-Heß , where he completed his habilitation in 1929 . With his teacher Müller-Hess he moved to the Forensic Medicine Institute of the Charité in 1930 and was appointed associate professor there in August 1932.
After power was handed over to the National Socialists , Wiethold became a member of the SA in 1933 . In 1934, Wiethold said of the Hitler government that it had "now, with exemplary vigor [...] consciously raising racial care and behavior to become dominant aspects of government". In June 1935, Wiethold accepted an appointment at the University of Kiel , where he taught as an associate professor and headed the local institute for forensic medicine. From 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP . In May 1941 he changed to the chair for forensic medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main and was director of the institute for forensic medicine there.
After the end of the Second World War , he was removed from his university position in 1945 by the American military government. Since he one by his former teacher Müller-Hess clean bill received, Wiethold was for a denazification process as relieved in April 1948 denazified . In April 1949 he was able to return to his chair at the University of Frankfurt as a personal professor and remained in this position until his death. From 1950 Wiethold belonged to the medical-legal working group at the private institute for sex research of Hans Giese and in the 1950s campaigned for a liberalization of § 175 StGB .
Fonts (selection)
- About chordoma malignum. Med. Dissertation. Frankfurt 1920.
- About the motives and causes of the moral crimes. Habilitation thesis. Berlin 1929.
literature
- Günter Grau : Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945 . Institutions - people - fields of activity . Lit Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8258-9785-7 .
- Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , pp. 172-173.
- ↑ Hansjürgen Bratzke : Brief outline of the history of forensic medicine in Frankfurt am Main. In: B. Madea (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Society for Forensic Medicine / Forensic Medicine. From the founding resolution in 1904 to forensic medicine of the 21st century. Munich 2004, OCLC 634868655 .
- ^ A b c d Günter Grau: Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - people - fields of activity. Berlin 2011, p. 328.
- ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 676f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiethold, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bocholt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1961 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |