Georg Lilienthal

Georg Lilienthal (born December 9, 1948 in Darmstadt , Germany ) is a German historian with a focus on medical history and specializes in euthanasia and racial hygiene . Until 2014 he was head of the largest euthanasia memorial in Germany, in Hadamar .

Live and act

Lilienthal was born in Darmstadt and studied history, German and Byzantine studies in Mainz . In 1976 he completed his examination for teaching at grammar schools, then worked as a research assistant and obtained his doctorate in history in 1982. phil, in 1991 he completed his habilitation and initially worked as a university lecturer in Mainz from 1991 to 1998 , and has been a private lecturer since 1998 . From 1999 to 2014 he was also the head of Germany's largest memorial for the victims of euthanasia in Hadamar. There, above all, the more than 10,000 victims are remembered, but extensive research is also carried out with the remaining files and the support of relatives of the victims.

Lilienthal does extensive research in the field of euthanasia and racial hygiene of the Nazis and can refer to extensive publications in specialist literature.

Lilienthal is a member of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy eV .

Publications (selection)

• Racial hygiene in the Third Reich. Crisis and turning point. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 14, 1979, pp. 114-134.
• The emergence of the first children's hospitals in Germany and their significance for the development of paediatrics. 1990.
• The Lebensborn eV 2003.

source

• Vita at fischerverlage.de