Franz Schütz (hygienist)

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Franz Schütz (born July 21, 1887 in Berlin , † August 18, 1955 in Göttingen ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor .

Life

In 1905, Schütz passed his matriculation examination at the Royal French Gymnasium in Berlin. He then completed a medical degree at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin . In 1912 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and approved the following year . Under Karl Kißkalt , he worked as an assistant at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Königsberg , where he completed his habilitation with his teacher in 1915 and then worked there as a private lecturer in hygiene and bacteriology. Schütz followed Kißkalt in 1919 to the University of Kiel , where he was appointed associate professor in 1921 and already dealt with questions of race hygiene. With Kißkalt he moved to the University of Bonn in 1924 , where he was supposed to hold a course on racial hygiene in 1925, and to the University of Munich in 1925 . From 1925 he worked as a senior assistant under Martin Hahn at the Hygiene Institute in Berlin, which he temporarily headed temporarily after Hahn had left. In addition, he took on a teaching position for school hygiene at the University of Berlin.

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Schütz became a member of the NSDAP in early April 1933 . In addition to lectures on social hygiene , he continued his courses on eugenics , which he had already started in 1932, under the heading "Justification and goals of racial hygiene in heredity, family research, racial care and population policy". At the beginning of November 1933 he was promoted to associate professor. In 1934, Schütz accepted a chair for hygiene at the University of Göttingen . During the Second World War he was also a consulting doctor in the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, Schütz was dismissed from the university office for political reasons by the British military government in 1945, against which he lodged an objection in January 1946 and presented a discharge certificate. After his suspension he worked at the Hygiene Institute in Lübeck . According to a tribunal procedure , Schütz was classified as exonerated (category V) as part of the denazification process . In 1950 he was able to return to Göttingen and worked there as a full professor of hygiene and bacteriology and director of the Hygiene Institute. From 1953 he was president of the Society for Hygiene and Microbiology and from 1954/55 dean of the medical faculty. A few weeks after his retirement , Schütz died on August 18, 1955.

Fonts

  • Racial hygiene of the German people , people and knowledge, Berlin / Erfurt 1934
  • Introduction to literature . In: Health and Education 10/1933

literature

  • In Memoriam Franz Schütz . In: Central sheet for bacteriology, parasite science, infectious diseases and hygiene : originals. 1. Abt, Volume 164, Issue 6/7, Gustav Fischer, 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e In Memoriam Franz Schütz . In: Central sheet for bacteriology, parasite science, infectious diseases and hygiene : originals. 1. Abt, Volume 164, Gustav Fischer, 1955, pp. 409f.
  2. ↑ Robin T. Maitra: "... who is able and willing to serve the state with top performance!": Hans Reiter and the change in health conception as reflected in the textbooks and handbooks of hygiene between 1920 and 1960. Matthiesen, 2001, P. 77
  3. ^ Franz Schütz: Social hygiene and racial hygiene . In: German medical weekly . tape 48 , no. 34 , 1922, pp. 1144-1145 .
  4. ^ Walter Bruchhausen: Hygiene and Public Health in Bonn from the 18th to the 20th century . In: Walter Bruchhausen, Thomas Kistemann (Ed.): 125 years of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health . Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062603-6 , pp. 7–56, here p. 41 .
  5. ^ A b c Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 467
  6. ^ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata , Academy of Sciences in Berlin, p. 505
  7. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 564
  8. ↑ a b Katinka Meyer: Prof. Dr. Anneliese Winkler (1907-1981) . In: File inspection , Journal for Museum and Education 74/2011/2012, LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 168f.
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1955
Place of death Goettingen