Günther KF Schultze

Günther Karl Friedrich Schultze (also Günter ; born August 24, 1896 in Heringsdorf , † May 1, 1945 in Greifswald ) was a German gynecologist and head of the women's clinic and midwifery school at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Schultze took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war he participated in the suppression of the Spartacus uprising and was a member of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade . From 1919 to 1922 he studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin . From 1923 he was an assistant at the Berlin University Women's Clinic and from 1930 private lecturer in Berlin. In 1933 he became second, in 1934 first senior physician . In 1934 he was also appointed extraordinary professor, and in 1938 he was appointed professor for gynecology at the Greifswald University Women's Clinic . He taught there until 1945.

Schultze was a specialist in treatments for infertility , developed X-ray diagnostics and developed the hysterosalpingography device . At the German Gynecological Congress in Munich in 1935, he presented his "examination of over 800 sterile marriages that were treated in the sterility clinic at the Berlin University Women's Clinic in the years 1926–34". At a meeting of Reich German urologists in 1936, he spoke about the sterilization practice used at the Berlin University Women's Clinic. In a secret letter in May 1941 from Ernst Grawitz , the head of the office of the Reich physician SS and police, to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS , Schultze's name was mentioned in a “list of the specialists charged with treating female infertility according to the method of Prof. Clauberg ”. However, it is not clear whether this means involvement in forced sterilization . He was one of the advisors of Aktion Lebensborn .

He joined the NSDAP in 1933 (membership number 3,077,691) and in 1934 the SS (membership number 235,448), where he rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1938 . From 1942 to 1945 Schultze was Lecturer Association Leader and Head of Lecturer at the University of Greifswald. From 1943 to 1945 he was dean of the Greifswald Medical Faculty.

Schultze and his wife committed suicide on May 1, 1945.

literature

• Susanne Doetz: Everyday life and practice of forced sterilization. The Berlin University Women's Clinic under Walter Stoeckel 1942–1944 , dissertation Berlin 2010 online (PDF file; 1.20 MB)
• 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. 155.
• Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 567.

Web links

• 75 years ago: founding of Lebensborn (PDF file; 10.12 MB)