Friedrich Erhard Haag

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Friedrich Erhard Haag (born July 23, 1896 in Rottweil ; † February 11, 1945 in Gießen ) was a German racial hygienist and university lecturer at the time of National Socialism .

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Friedrich Erhard Haag was the son of the crystallographer Friedrich Haag . Haag took part in the First World War as a war volunteer from 1915 to 1918 and studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen and Würzburg from 1918 to 1922 . In 1919 he took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic as a member of the Epp Freikorps . After completing his studies , Haag received his doctorate in 1925. med. at the University of Würzburg and then worked as a scientific assistant at the hygiene institute of the university there. His habilitation followed in 1927 in Würzburg with the text The Anthrax Bacillus, Its Circulatory Forms and Varieties . He then worked as a school doctor in Stuttgart until 1930 . From 1930 to 1936 he was an assistant doctor at the Hygiene Institute of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

Haag, who had been a member of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (KfdK) since 1932 , joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933, and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in November 1933 , after the handover of power to the National Socialists . He was also a member of the Nazi Medical Association . From 1934 to 1940 he was a non-civil servant associate professor for racial hygiene and care (Extraordinariat for genetic health and racial care) at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf and from May 1934 taught the subject “Racial Studies” at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Völkisch oriented, he represented the ideology of the national community and the authoritarian corporate state . In Düsseldorf he worked as a local group leader of the German Society for Racial Hygiene and headed the local hereditary biological department of the marriage and race advice center.

From 1940 to 1945, Haag was a full professor of hygiene at the University of Gießen and director of the Hygienic Institute there . From October 1941 to 1945 he was Lecturer Association Leader at the University of Giessen. His main research interests were anaphylaxis , bacterial antagonism and permanent salmonella eliminators . During the Second World War , Haag was also a senior staff doctor and advisory hygienist at Military District IX in Kassel . The Hygiene Institute was completely destroyed on December 6, 1944 when the Allies bombed Giessen .

Fonts (selection)

  • The anthrax bacillus, its circulatory forms and varieties , In: Archiv f. Hygiene . Vol. 98, Munich 1927, also medical habilitation thesis at the University of Würzburg
  • The mental health of the people and their care , Munich 1931
  • People without possessions: The worker question, seen from a racial perspective , From: Deutschlands Renewal , Munich 1935
  • Lagerhygiene , In: pocket books of the troop doctor ; Vol. 6, Munich / Berlin 1943

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 68.
  • Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Akademie Verlag, Edition Bildung und Wissenschaft Volume 10, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004094-3 , ISBN 3-05-004094-7 .
  • Heiko Zielke: Social and Racial Hygiene. Friedrich Erhard Haag and the Hygienic Institute. In: Michael G. Esch, Kerstin Griese , Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk (eds.): The Medical Academy Düsseldorf in National Socialism. Essen 1997, pp. 139-164.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poggendorff Lit-Biogr. Hand Lexicon ..
  2. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 68.
  3. ^ A b c d Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, pp. 289f.
  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. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 (=  Würzburg Medical History Research , Supplement 3). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (also dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 8.
  6. ↑ Racial Studies: Prof. Dr. med. Haag , in 10th State Art Academy, Address Book of the City of Düsseldorf, 1935, Part One Authorities Directory, p. 11
  7. ↑ Dr. Haag, Friedrich Erhard, General Hygiene, Racial Hygiene a. Bacteriology, Associate Professor , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1938, first part of the NSDAP offices
  8. ↑ History of the Institute for Medical Microbiology in Gießen (up to the year 2000) ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on archive link ( memento of the original from April 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gd1.med.uni-giessen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gd1.med.uni-giessen.de
personal data
SURNAME Haag, Friedrich Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haag, Friedrich-Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, university professor and racial hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1945
Place of death to water