Gottfried Jungmichel

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Gottfried Georg Gustav Jungmichel (born May 1, 1902 in Spantekow , † February 2, 1981 in Göttingen ) was a German forensic doctor , university professor and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Jungmichel passed his Abitur and from 1920 studied medicine at the University of Greifswald , which he graduated with a state examination in 1925. After his doctorate as Dr. med. In 1927 ( doctoral thesis : Perthes' disease in X-rays ) he initially worked as an assistant at the Stralsund Sanatorium and the Pathological Institute in Braunschweig, and from 1929 to 1934 as a forensic doctor at the University of Greifswald. In 1934 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Alcohol Determination in Blood - Methodology and Forensic Significance at the Greifswald Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine and became a private lecturer . Then he was first assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich and later became the provisional successor of Walter Schwarzacher at the University of Heidelberg, who had been removed from his university position for political reasons . From there he moved back to Greifswald, where he was also acting on a temporary basis. From October 1938 to 1945 he was professor of forensic medicine at the University of Göttingen . During this time he headed the local institute for forensic medicine within the medical faculty. He dealt with the special fields of " blood groups " and " racial hygiene ". During the Second World War , he had been an expert in several cases on the question of whether there was " self-mutilation " in accidents involving conscripts .

After the end of the war Jungmichel was an American prisoner of war, from which he was released in June 1945. Because of his NSDAP membership, Jungmichel was suspended from university service by the British military administration in November 1945. As a so-called 131er , he was promoted to the status of professor for reuse in September 1948 and taught insurance medicine at the University of Göttingen from March 1952 . In September 1958 he was appointed professor of insurance medicine at the University of Göttingen and retired there in early September 1970 . As such, he campaigned for the retention of the mother's passport in 1966 . Jungmichel became president of the German Association for Trauma in 1954 .

politics

Jungmichel was a member of SA Brigade 10 (Pomerania-West), from which he was certified in March 1933: “As a man who openly supported the movement at the time of the struggle before the seizure of power, he is dealing with many SA duties have also been a valuable force in the period since the seizure of power. His ideological consolidation can be regarded as beyond any doubt. ”He joined the NSDAP in 1937 and joined the National Socialist German Medical Association , the NS-Dozentbund , the NSV , the NS-Altherrenbund , the Reichsbund der Kinderreich and the Volksbund für das Deutschtum abroad . In 1948 he was classified as "exonerated" in a denazification process .

Jungmichel joined the FDP after 1945. He was a councilor in Göttingen from 1956 to 1976 and served as Lord Mayor of the city from November 27, 1956 to October 6, 1966 . In 1959 he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until 1967. After the formation of a coalition of the SPD and FDP, he was initially designated by the Liberals as Lower Saxony's minister of education in 1963. Due to his Nazi past, however, he was unable to take up this post, which the diplomat Hans Mühlenfeld took over.

Honors

Jungmichel was awarded the Great Cross of Merit in 1972, and on April 30, 1977 he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen. In 2001, the Göttingen city council dealt with an application by the Greens to revoke his honorary citizenship posthumously, but this was not granted.

literature

  • Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-57-8 .

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Jungmichel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 162-163.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 292f.
  3. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 163
  4. ↑ Intimate Notes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1966, pp. 70 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Quoted in: Friedrich Herber: Forensic Medicine under the Swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , p. 162
  6. ↑ This women's stuff . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1963, pp. 28 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Fly or go . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1965, p. 40 ( online ).
  8. ^ Friedrich Herber: Forensic medicine under the swastika. Militzke, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-86189-249-9 , pp. 163-164.
  9. ^ Motion of the GAL parliamentary group in the city council: Posthumous revocation of the honorary citizenship of Gottfried Jungmichel on March 9, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Jungmichel, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jungmichel, Gottfried Georg Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, university professor and politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Spantekow
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1981
Place of death Goettingen