Friedrich Weyrauch
Friedrich Weyrauch (born March 21, 1897 in Oberstein an der Nahe ; † November 16, 1940 in Jena ) was a German hygienist and university professor .
Life
The professor's son finished his school career at the high school in Rathenow with the Abitur. He then took part in the First World War as an officer and received several awards. After the war he was released from the army as a lieutenant . He then completed a medical degree from 1919 to 1923 at the University of Marburg and the University of Berlin , which he completed with a state examination. During the following assistantship at the Institute for Experimental Therapy at the University of Marburg, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1925 to 1928 he worked at the Bacteriological Institute of the University of Jena and passed the district medical exam for Thuringia and Prussia . Briefly employed as a commercial hygienist in Gdansk , he worked from 1929 to 1934 at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Halle , where he last taught commercial hygiene.
After the seizure of power , he joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 and was also a member of the SS . His friend, the hygienist and SS leader Joachim Mrugowsky, took over the sponsorship of Weyrauch's oldest daughter.
Weyrauch followed the call to the University of Jena again in 1934 , where from 1935 he was an associate professor at the chair for hygiene. In 1936 he was appointed full professor and became director of the Bacteriological Institute at the University of Jena and head of the Thuringian Central Office for Industrial Hygiene. As part of these functions, he had to carry out hygienic environmental examinations in Buchenwald concentration camp from autumn 1938, as members of the SS guards had been infected with paratyphoid due to the catastrophic hygiene conditions prevailing there . Weyrauch received psychiatric treatment after a "nervous breakdown". He committed on 16 November 1940 in his office by shooting suicide . His successor, also in the cooperation with Buchenwald, was Hans Schlossberger .
literature
- Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X
- 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 .
- Susanne Zimmermann: The Medical Faculty of the University of Jena during the time of National Socialism. Edited by Olaf Breidbach, VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86135-481-0 (= Ernst-Haeckel-Haus-Studien. Volume 2, also habilitation thesis at the University of Jena 1993).
- Susanne Zimmermann / Thomas Zimmermann: The Medical Faculty of the University of Jena in the “Third Reich” - An overview. In: Uwe Hoßfeld (ed.): In the service of people and fatherland: The Jena University in the Nazi era. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-16704-5 .
Web link
- Entry on Friedrich Weyrauch in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 674
- ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 234.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weyrauch, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hygienist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberstein on the Nahe |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Jena |