Friedrich Bartels (physician)

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Friedrich Bartels

Friedrich "Fritz" Georg Christian Bartels (* July 21, 1892 in Rohrsen ; † July 9, 1968 in Herrenalb ) was a German physician, civil servant and political functionary. Bartels held office during the Nazi era, among other things, as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and as deputy Reichsärzteführer.

Live and act

Bartels was born in 1892 to a bailiff . In his youth he attended the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Gymnasium in Linden near Hanover. He then studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he became a member of the Cimbria fraternity in 1912 .

From 1914 to 1918 Bartels took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , most recently as a medical officer in the air force. He then continued his medical studies and finished it in May 1920 with the state examination. He then worked as an assistant at the University Clinic in Munich. He received his license to practice medicine in January 1921 . In May 1921 he was to defend his dissertation to the casuistry inborn cavernous Lymphangiombildung at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich to Dr. med. PhD . Initially from 1923 as a trainee doctor at the Dortmund Health Department, in August 1923 he became a district doctor in the Lennep district . In 1927 he moved to Eisenach, where he took over the management of the municipal health department. Since then he has been the editor of the communications of the Society for German Economic and Social Policy .

After the First World War, Bartels became politically active in circles of the nationalist and völkisch right: at the beginning of 1919 he was one of the founders of the Academic Association of War Participants , which had also committed itself to the fight against “red Munich”. After moving to the University of Jena, he founded the Hodlerbund there , which turned against communist activities at the university. He belonged to the Iron Fist in 1919/20 and joined the NSDAP in February 1920 ( membership number 1212). From 1920 to 1924 he worked as a manager at the Bund Oberland , where he also met Gerhard Wagner . He took part in the uprisings in Upper Silesia and in the Kapp Putsch . From 1923 and 1924 he took part in the " Ruhr battles ". Because of his political activities, he was arrested several times between 1920 and 1923. In 1925 he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), of which he was a member until 1930. In early July 1931 he switched back to the NSDAP . For this he took over first functionary tasks in 1932 as head of the local group in Eisenach , where he later also became city councilor and deputy parliamentary group leader for the party. He also became a member of the National Socialist Medical Association . Disciplinary proceedings against him were unsuccessful because of National Socialist activities.

A few months after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Bartels was appointed to the Reich Ministry of the Interior in May 1933, where he initially received the rank of senior government councilor before being promoted to ministerial councilor that same year. In the Ministry of the Interior, Bartels acted primarily as a confidante of the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner. In the context of the internal power struggles of the Nazi leaders, Wagner and Bartels leaned closely on the head of the German Labor Front (DAF) Robert Ley , for whom Bartels also de facto headed the DAF Public Health Office until July 1939.

In 1934, in addition to his duties as a civil servant, Bartels took on the post of head of office on the staff of the Führer’s deputy . In mid-May 1934 he resigned from the Reich Ministry of the Interior and was appointed to Wagner's deputy as Reichsärzteführer. A short time later, Bartels also took on the role of head of the main office for public health in Berlin-Wannsee , based at Am Sandwerder 31. In the summer of 1934, there was a conflicting dispute with the physician Ernst Wilhelm Baader , as Bartels disparaged foreign Germans at the International Sports Medical Congress would have. In July 1934, Bartels challenged Baader to a duel with sabers. As a result of this dispute, there were party judicial proceedings. In his capacity as head of the main office for public health, Bartels applied for a seat in the Reichstag in the Reichstag election of March 29, 1936 on the nomination of the NSDAP (list position no. 84) , but was not elected.

At the end of December 1937, Wagner and Bartels reached an agreement with Lehmann-Verlag on the publication of the Health Management of the German People . In 1938 he was also entrusted with the management of the Reich Tuberculosis Committee.

In mid-March 1938 he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he immediately received the rank of brigade leader. At the end of January 1939, Bartels received the NSDAP's golden party badge . His admission to the Schutzstaffel (SS) was rejected.

When Wagner became seriously ill in the late 1930s, he chose Bartels as his successor, who, despite this designation, never assumed the office of Reichsärzteführer. Instead, after Leonardo Conti took office, he was ousted from all his offices on the pretext of disloyalty at the end of July 1939. Honorary court proceedings and party quarrels prevented Bartels from being employed as a senior company doctor at BMW or IG Farben . After the beginning of the Second World War , Bartels served in the Wehrmacht from the spring of 1940 .

After the war he worked as a general practitioner.

Fonts

  • On the casuistry of congenital cavernous lymphangioma formation , Munich 1921. (Dissertation)
  • "The company doctor and his task", in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt No. 67, 1937.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 61.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 51-52. (with picture)
  • Karl-Peter Reeg: Friedrich Georg Christian Bartels (1892-1968). A contribution to the development of performance medicine under National Socialism. Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 1988 (Treatises on the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences 56), ISBN 978-3-7868-4056-5
  • Winfried Süss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany, 1939-1945 . 2003, ISBN 3-486-56719-5 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • 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 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "law on the standardization of the health system" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for public health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172-2131 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 51.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "law on the standardization of the health system" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for public health in Düsseldorf 1985, p. 378f.
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartels, Friedrich Georg Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, deputy Reichsärzteführer and SA brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrsen
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1968
Place of death Herrenalb