Gerhard Schrader (forensic doctor)

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Gerhard Schrader (born July 9, 1900 in Opole ; † May 10, 1949 in Bonn ) was a German forensic doctor and university professor.

Early years

Gerhard Schrader was the son of a doctor. He attended elementary school in Loslau from 1906 to 1912 . Then he continued his school days at the humanistic grammar school in Rybnik and Beuthen . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Universities of Breslau and Munich from 1919 and completed his studies in 1924 with a state examination. In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD .

In the years 1924 to 1930 he completed his medical internship, the medical traineeship and his internship at the Knappschaftslazarett in Hindenburg , then at the Pathological Institute of the University of Breslau, then at the mental hospital of the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Halle . From 1931 to 1934 Schrader was the first assistant to the director Friedrich Pietrusky at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Bonn . He completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1931 and also worked there as a private lecturer.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists seized power , Schrader became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,117,844) in early May 1933 and the SA in November 1934 . In 1934 he moved from the SA to the NSKK , where he was promoted to Sanitätsobersturmführer and deputy standard doctor. Furthermore, he entered a. a. the NSV (1933), the NS-Dozentbund (1935), the NS-Ärztebund (1938), the DRK (1939), the NS-Altherrenbund (1941), the Reichskolonialbund and the Reichsluftschutzbund .

At the beginning of November 1934 he moved to the University of Marburg , where he became director of the local forensic medicine institute and was given a scheduled extraordinary position. Here he was appointed as a judge at the local hereditary health court . Until 1937 he worked at the Racial Political Office in the Gau Kurhessen.

In April 1937 he took over a professorship at the University of Halle, headed the Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine as director and also worked as a judge at the Halle Hereditary Health Court. He was also a member of the Forensic Medical Committee of the Province of Saxony. In 1941 he turned down a professorship at the Reich University of Strasbourg that had been brought to him, and as a result he received a regular full professorship in Halle.

Schrader took over the chairmanship of the German Society for Forensic Medicine and Criminology in 1942 . In 1943 he was elected a member of the Forensic Medicine Section of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In June 1943, Schrader received a special assignment that was classified as a Reich Secret : He was in charge of the forensic medical delegation of an investigative commission that had examined the exhumed corpses of the Vinnitsa massacre in the Soviet Union in July 1943 . His representative was the lecturer Joachim Camerer from Halle. As a result, German university professors in forensic medicine signed a protocol that established the Soviet perpetrators for this crime. From 1944 onwards, Schrader was still a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

During the Second World War , the Gestapo brought corpses of executed Eastern workers from the execution site of the Red Ox prison to the section room of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Halle . The corpses were used by doctoral students at the institute for research purposes in 1944/45, the dissertations were supervised by Schrader. As vice dean of the medical faculty, Schrader also sent corpses to other departments at the university. One of Schrader's doctoral students was Siegfried Krefft , who was later awarded a doctorate with the dissertation “On the genesis of cervical bleeding after death by hanging”. med. received his doctorate . In the final phase of the Second World War he was drafted into the Volkssturm .

post war period

After the liberation from National Socialism , Schrader was interned in America on May 6, 1945, from which he was released at the end of October 1946. Released from his professorship in Halle in 1945, he was not taken back to university and worked as a doctor in Leverkusen . Schrader was classified as exonerated in the context of denazification in 1948 . Due to a congenital heart defect, he died on May 10, 1949 in Bonn .

“There was only one opinion about him: a person full of character, indomitable in his sense of justice. Schrader took up the fight against the Gaudozentenführer with great energy within the faculty. It took a lot of courage, the aforementioned terrorized the faculty, Mr. Schrader owes nothing to the party. He received the professorship at the University of Halle against the will of the party. "

- Emil Abderhalden's declaration on December 14, 1946 in Zurich .

Fonts (selection)

  • A case of gastric sarcoma , Breslau, Med. Dissertation, 1925
  • Experimental investigations on the histopathology of electrical skin damage caused by low-voltage direct and alternating currents , Jena 1932

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 , p. 170.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 132.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Gerhard Schrader in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  4. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 559.
  5. ↑ Member entry of Gerhard Schrader at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ cf. Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , pp. 20, 125, 314.
  7. ↑ Entry on Joachim Camerer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  8. ↑ Andreas Hilger : "Let justice take its course"? The punishment of German war criminals and violent criminals in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone / GDR. In: Norbert Frei : Transnational politics of the past. How to deal with German war criminals in Europe after the Second World War. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89244-940-9 , pp. 180–246, here p. 237.
  9. ↑ Daniel Bohse, Alexander Sperk (arrangement): The red ox Halle (Saale). Political Justice 1933-1945, 1945-1989 . Edited by Joachim Scherrieble. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-480-8 ( series of publications by the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation 1), p. 216.
  10. ↑ Entry on Siegfried Krefft in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
  11. ↑ Quoted in: Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 132f.
personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrader, Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1949
Place of death Bonn