Gerhard Warstat

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Ernst Gerhard Warstat (born November 6, 1887 in Angerburg ; † January 5, 1941 in Stendal ) was a German surgeon and lecturer .

He was director and chief physician of the Johanniter hospital in Stendal. As a member of the Hereditary Health Court in Stendal, he was responsible for hundreds of compulsory sterilizations that were carried out on the basis of the " Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring " from 1934.

family

Warstat was a son of the deaf and dumb teacher Ernst Warstat and his wife Auguste, nee. Beer lover. He married Ruth Anita Eleonore, born in Stendal in 1928. Diercksen. The marriage resulted in two sons, one of whom died as a child.

Life

After attending the city school in Friedland , Warstat attended the Royal Frederick College in Königsberg . After graduating from high school, he began studying medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1906 . Between the preliminary medical examination in 1908 and the medical examination in 1911, he completed the first half of his military service as a one-year volunteer with the Grenadier Regiment No. 3 King Friedrich Wilhelm . Warstat received his first job as a medical intern at the Royal Medical Polyclinic in Königsberg. In the following year he moved to the second assistant position at the Pathological-Anatomical University Institute at the Albertus University. In 1912 he was at the Albertus University "rare About combinations of carcinomas in the female sexual organs" with a thesis on his doctorate . In the following year he went to the Royal Surgical Polyclinic as a trainee doctor , where he was promoted to assistant doctor shortly afterwards . At the beginning of the First World War , Warstat became a surgeon in the 1st Medical Company of the 1st Army Corps , then a battalion doctor in the Grenadier Regiment No. 1 Crown Prince . In 1916 he took over the military department of the surgical university clinic in Königsberg. The following year he received his habilitation . At the end of the war, Warstat was released as senior physician in the reserve.

From April 1, 1922 until his death, Warstat worked as director and chief physician of the Johanniter Hospital in Stendal. Under his leadership, the hospital was modernized through several construction measures, so that it met the demands of the time for hygiene and comfort in the patient area and optimized work processes in the care and economic area. In addition, the capacity was increased from the original 200 to 302 beds in June 1937 through new buildings and extensions.

After the seizure of power of the National Socialists came Warstat 1933 SA at. With the rank of medical assault leader , he looked after the rider standard 141.

From 1934 he was an assessor at the Stendal Hereditary Health Court. The task presupposed that the doctor “was particularly familiar with genetic health science”. In the first year of its existence, 556 applications for forced sterilization were submitted to the Hereditary Health Court. Often they were inmates of the Uchtspringe state hospital . About 95 percent of the cases brought to court ended in compulsory sterilization.

Publications (selection)

  • About rare combinations of carcinomas in the female sexual organs. Dissertation from the Medical Faculty of the Albertus University in Königsberg / Pr. Self-published, printed by L. Schumacher, Berlin 1912.
  • About a typical sports injury to the right humerus from a hand grenade. In: Munich medical weekly. No. 6. 1917, p. 200.
  • Mutilating and Conservative Limb Surgery. Collection lecture on the works published in 1919. In: Archives for orthopedics, mechanotherapy and trauma surgery, with special consideration of fracture theory and orthopedic-surgical technology. Vol. 18, No. 3. 1920, pp. 627-647.
  • About rare combinations of carcinomas in the female sexual organs. In: Journal of Cancer Research. Vol. 11, No. 3 October 1912, pp. 527-546.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ registry office Stendal: Death certificate 7/1941
  2. ↑ registry office Stendal: marriage certificate 134/1928
  3. ^ Gerhard Warstat: About rare combinations of carcinomas on the female sexual organs. Dissertation from the Medical Faculty of the Albertus University in Königsberg / Pr. Printed by L. Schumacher, Berlin 1912, p. Vita .
  4. ↑ a b Der Altmärker - Stendal from January 6, 1941 . Volume 43, No. 4 . Stendal 1941, p. 6 .
  5. ↑ Johanniter Hospital Genthin-Stendal. History. Stendal 1901-2000. Johanniter Hospital Genthin-Stendal, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Offspring of July 14, 1933, Section 6 (1) . In: Reichsgesetzblatt Part I of July 25, 1933 . Born 1933, no. 86 . Berlin 1933, p. 529-531 (529) .
  7. ^ Donald Lyko: Racial hygiene by court ruling. In: Volksstimme.de. June 4, 2014, accessed August 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Warstat, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warstat, Ernst Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Angerburg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1941
Place of death Stendal