Gerd Peters (doctor)

Gerd Peters (born May 8, 1906 in Bonn , † March 14, 1987 in Munich ) was a German neuropathologist and university professor.

Life

Peters began his school career in Bonn, which he continued at the German College in Godesberg in 1925 and finished in 1926. Peters then completed a degree in medicine at the University of Bonn , which he completed in 1931 with the state examination. Peters received his doctorate in 1931 with the dissertation : About the effect of X-rays on microorganisms for Dr. med.

He did his volunteer time at the Hygiene Institute in Bonn and then at the Solingen Hospital . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the Uerdingen Hospital , from the beginning of October 1932 to the end of September 1933 at the Pathological Institute in Bonn and then until the end of June 1934 at the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic Bonn. Then Peters moved to Munich , where he was employed at the Brain Pathology Institute of the University of Munich . Peters completed his habilitation in Munich in 1938 in the field of psychiatry and neurology with the text Anatomic-Pathological Comments on the Question of Schizophrenia .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Peters was drafted into the Wehrmacht . There he reached the rank of medical officer of the reserve and was awarded the War Merit Cross, 2nd class. Initially Peters worked under Franz Büchner at the Institute for Aviation Medical Pathology of the Reich Aviation Ministry and in 1942 moved to its external department for brain research in Berlin-Buch . There he researched hypothermia . Peters took part in the conference on “Medical Questions in Distress at Sea and Winter Death” on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where a lecture was also given about the “attempts at hypothermia” in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the end of the war he was classified as exonerated in a denazification process at the end of 1947 . From 1947, Peters reported on damage to the central nervous system caused by the drug Salvarsan used against syphilis . Peters was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association of Brain Injured War Victims in 1948 . In the same year Peters became an associate professor and in 1952 an associate professor. From 1952 he was also director of the Institute for Neuropathology at the University of Bonn and from 1956 the Rheinische Landesklinik for brain injured persons in Bonn. From 1961 to 1974, Peters was director of a department at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich . Peters belonged to the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy (since 1971) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was the author of numerous publications on psychiatry, neuropathology and neurology.

Belonging to Nazi organizations

Peters joined the NSDAP in 1938 and was briefly a member of the SA in 1934 . Peters also belonged to the Reichs Luftschutzbund from 1936 and from 1938 to the NS-Ärztebund (NSDÄB), the NS-Dozentbund (NSDDB) and the NS-Fliegerkorps (NSFK). At the NSFK he achieved the rank of medical assault leader.

literature

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 .
Ralf Forsbach : The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5 .
Georg W. Kreutzberg : Gerd Peters: 8.5.1906 - 14.3.1987 (obituary to Peters). In: Annual report 1986 and annual accounts 1985: Obituaries (series: Max Planck Society, Reports and Communications, issue 4/87) (1987), pages 82–85.

Web links

Literature by and about Gerd Peters in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 196f.
↑ ^a ^b Gerd Peters: Schizophrenia - A physical illness . In: Psychologie Heute , September 1974 edition, p. 20.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 454f.
↑ Gerd Peters: About the pathology of the salvarsan damage of the central nervous system. In: Franz Büchner, W. Fischer (Ed.): Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology. Volume 110, Jena 1949, pp. 371-401.

personal data
SURNAME	Peters, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1987
Place of death	Munich

[Forsbach196f-1] Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 196f.

[Peters-2] Gerd Peters: Schizophrenia - A physical illness . In: Psychologie Heute , September 1974 edition, p. 20.

[Klee454f-3] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 454f.

[4] Gerd Peters: About the pathology of the salvarsan damage of the central nervous system. In: Franz Büchner, W. Fischer (Ed.): Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology. Volume 110, Jena 1949, pp. 371-401.