Fritz Roeder

Fritz Douglas Roeder (born July 1, 1906 in Göttingen ; † January 14, 1988 ) was a German neurosurgeon and university professor.

Roeder was trained as a neurosurgeon at the University of Göttingen with Hermann Rein and Gottfried Ewald . In 1938 he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. He served as a medical officer in the Air Force . He made human experiments on high altitude and lack of oxygen during flight. In 1943 he worked at the Institute for Aviation Medicine in Munich with Georg August Weltz . Roeder was a member of the National Socialist Medical Association . After 1945 he was appointed professor at the University of Göttingen. In 1962 he was operating a patient, which he in the midbrain destroyed an area in which he suspected the cause of sexually deviant behavior. In 1969 he treated a homosexual to get rid of his addictions. He also speculated about brain operations on violent terrorists like Ulrike Meinhof .

Fonts

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 , pp. 502 .

Volkmar Sigusch (ed.): Sexual disorders and their treatment . 4th, revised. Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-13-103944-6 , pp. 328 . (on-line)
Soul under the knife. In: Der Spiegel. 33/1975.

personal data
SURNAME	Roeder, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roeder, Fritz Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neurosurgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1988