Gerhard Kreyenberg

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Gerhard Kreyenberg (born June 30, 1899 in Hamburg ; † October 15, 1996 there ) was a German psychiatrist and at the time of National Socialism deputy director of the Alsterdorfer institutes .

Life

The rector's son Kreyenberg attended the Johanneum in Hamburg and completed his school career in 1917 with a secondary school diploma . He then took part in the First World War as a soldier and was discharged from the army in December 1919. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen , Munich and Hamburg , which he graduated with the first state examination in 1923. He completed his medical internship at the Eppendorf General Hospital and received his license to practice medicine at the end of 1924 . With the dissertation body constitution and manic-depressive insanity doctorate he in January 1925 in Hamburg at Wilhelm Weygandt Dr. med.

From February 1925 he worked as a resident country doctor near Osnabrück and from October 1926 he was an assistant doctor at the Bethel institutions . At the beginning of January 1928 he switched to the Alsterdorfer Anstalten as an assistant doctor and in April 1931 he became the senior physician in charge. From 1936 he was a member of the board of directors of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten and from 1938 to 1945 he was deputy to the local director Friedrich Lensch .

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP and SA in 1933 and rose to the position of Sanitäts-Sturmführer in the SA. From 1933 Kreyenberg, married and father of seven children, was the country manager of the Reichsbund der Kinderreich . In 1934, Kreyenberg became head of the NSDAP's race policy department . At the Hamburg Hereditary Health Court he was first an expert, then a senior expert and from 1935 an assessor. In this function he operated the forced sterilization of so-called imbecile people according to the law for the prevention of hereditary offspring , also in the Alsterdorf institutions. In 1944 Kreyenberg took over the chairmanship of the association of independent, non-profit hospitals and nursing homes in Hamburg.

Kreyenberg introduced new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of the mentally handicapped , such as "X-ray deep radiation, insulin and cardiazole shock treatments, long baths, sleep and fever cures". In this context he was the author of several papers. He also evaluated clan tables to prove the alleged heredity of nonsense.

In the course of the National Socialist euthanasia measures during the Second World War , Kreyenberg authorized, with his signatures on registration forms, the transfer of inmates of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten to other facilities, where most of them died from starvation or the administration of drug cocktails.

After the liberation from National Socialism , Kreyenberg resigned from his employment with the Alsterdorfer Anstalten in August 1945 following an employment ban imposed by the British military administration and gave up his position on the board there. After his denazification , in which his professional ban was confirmed, he successfully fought for his re-admission as a doctor in 1948 by means of exonerating testimony.

From 1952 he ran a doctor's practice in Hamburg-Alsterdorf and was an affiliated doctor at the Alsterdorfer Anstalten until 1966. In addition, he worked as an expert in court proceedings with the subject of forced sterilization. A preliminary investigation into aiding and abetting murder as part of the Nazi euthanasia against Kreyenberg was closed in 1970 by the Hamburg public prosecutor.

Kreyenberg was the long-time chairman of the Hamburg Children's Home Köhlbrand in Ording eV based in Hamburg. The association ran the children's home in St. Peter-Ording . Kreyenberg was also a "promoter of the small graphics". Well-known artists make bookplates , Christmas and New Year's greetings and collect bookplates from doctors.

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personal data
SURNAME Kreyenberg, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1996
Place of death Hamburg