Gottfried Frey

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Gottfried Julius Ottokar Frey , pseudonym Ernst Wolfhart (* July 23, 1871 in Schwetz an der Weichsel ; † September 17, 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German hygienist , ministerial official and writer.

Life

Gottfried Frey was the son of pastor Johann Gottfried Thomas Frey (1835–1907) and his wife Agnes Wilhelmine Marie, née Kowalk (1849–1926). He finished his school career in 1889 with the Abitur at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin . He then studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin . After completing his studies, he was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate and received his license to practice medicine the following year . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the provincial insane asylum in Schwetz. First he worked as a district assistant doctor in Beuthen and Oppeln and after passing his exam to become a district doctor, he worked from 1901 as a district doctor in Lublinitz and from 1906 to 1914 in Tarnowitz . Since 1905 he was married to Else Alice Frieda, née Scholz (* 1885). The couple had a daughter and a son.

During the First World War he was in charge of the medical administration in the General Government of Warsaw from 1915 to 1918 . In this function he devoted himself in particular to border disease protection. After the war he was medical director in Frankfurt an der Oder until 1920 . From 1920 to 1933 he was director of the medical department in the Reich Health Office and also deputy president and member of the Reich Health Council . At international conferences he represented the German Reich as an expert on infectious diseases.

Since December 1931 a member of the NSDAP , he was promoted to Ministerial Director in the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists at the end of February 1933 and headed the medical department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior (later the Reich Ministry of the Interior ) from the beginning of March 1933 to the end of September 1937 . He became president of the Prussian State Health Council.

During the Second World War he was an associate member of the Scientific Senate of the Military Medical Academy in Berlin with the rank of senior field doctor .

At the beginning of his medical career, Frey was concerned with psychiatric issues. Later his work focused on occupational medicine, hygiene and public health. After all, he was considered an expert on infectious diseases and industrial hygiene.

Frey published novels, short stories and poems under the pseudonym Ernst Wolfhart . Frey was a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture and from 1940 belonged to the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

Fonts (selection)

  • The hygiene of mining and metallurgy, in particular. d. Activity d. civil servant doctor in this field , Schoetz, Berlin 1912 (belongs to publications from the field of medical administration; Vol. 1, H. 14)
  • The angiokeratoma , Berlin Vogt's Buchdr. 1893 (also medical dissertation at the University of Berlin)
  • Pictures from the health system in Poland (Congress Poland) from the time of the German administration (1914-18): Contribution. Population geography, Gea, Berlin 1919, (belongs to: Contributions to Polish cultural studies / B] Contributions to Polish cultural studies: Series B, individual writings intended for other circles; Vol. 7)
  • Les Services d'hygiène publique en Allemagne: Société des Nations , Organization d'hygiène, Société des Nations, Geneve 1924.
  • Thoughts on hygienic popular education, its ways, etc. Aids , Julius Springer, Berlin 1927, (Ext. From: Work from the Reich Health Office. Vol. 57). Expanded in five editions until 1940, from 1934 under the title Hygienic Education in the Public Health Service
  • German rulers: Without roots, chaff in the wind , Roß, Berlin 1936.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Old Prussian biography: lfg. 1-2 supplements to Volume I to III , 1989, p. 1209
  2. ↑ a b c Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, P. 407f.
  3. ↑ a b c Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Munich 2003, p. 465
  4. ↑ a b c " Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 3, Munich 2006, p. 501
  5. ↑ Beate Waigand: Anti-Semitism on demand. The Deutsches Ärzteblatt and the Jewish Doctors 1918-1933 , History of Medicine in Context 7, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 253
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 197, 200
  7. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Gottfried Julius Ottokar (full name); Wolfhart, Ernst (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, ministerial official and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwetz on the Vistula
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1952
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen