Gunnar Berg (medical doctor)

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Gunnar Berg (born February 20, 1907 in Dresden , † February 16, 1974 in Borstel near Bad Oldesloe ) was a German internist and National Socialist of Swedish origin.

Life

Gunnar Berg was the son of the Swedish nutritionist Ragnar Berg and his German wife. He finished his school career in 1926 with the Abitur and began studying chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Greifswald . From 1927 to 1931 he completed medical studies at the universities of Berlin , Greifswald, Marburg and Heidelberg , which he completed with the state examination. He was then promoted to Dr. med. is doing his doctorate and completed his one-year medical internship at the Ludwig-Krehl-Klinik in Heidelberg.

As a teenager, he was a member of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade in 1923 and applied for membership in the NSDAP in the same year . Then he turned to right-wing extremist organizations: He joined the front ban in Dresden and then the Völkisch-Soziale Block . At the beginning of his studies he joined the NS Student Union (NSDStB) in Greifswald in 1926 . From 1928 he was a member of the Sturmabteilung , in which he reached the rank of medical standard leader. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 and received German citizenship in the same year.

In Heidelberg , from January 1933, he worked for the following years as an assistant doctor to the internists Richard Siebeck and Johannes Stein as well as to the neurologist Viktor von Weizsäcker for nine months . He completed his specialist training as an internist in 1938. After the beginning of the Second World War, he took over as deputy head of the stomach department in the Heidelberg reserve hospital from November 1939. In June 1940 , Berg completed his habilitation with a paper on the characteristic traits of soldiers with stomach ailments in Heidelberg, although up to that point he had only written two medical papers. In October 1940 he received the license to teach internal medicine and occupational diseases and then worked as a private lecturer . Together with his mentor Stein, he moved to the University of Strasbourg in early 1941 . Berg was also a member of the Nazi doctors 'association and the Nazi lecturers' association.

After the end of the war he was chief physician at the Borstel Tuberculosis Research Institute from 1948 . At the beginning of the 1950s he belonged to the men's club in Hamburg, an association of former Nazis initiated by the former Nazi functionary Gustav Adolf Scheel , which was connected to the Naumann district . From 1958 he also sat before the Riksföreningen Sverige-Tyskland , a Swedish right-wing extremist organization. In the association Nation Europa-Freunde e. V. he took over the deputy chairmanship.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel W. Bauer: Internal medicine, neurology and dermatology . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Heidelberg 2006, p. 738
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 39
  3. ↑ a b Axel W. Bauer: Internal medicine, neurology and dermatology . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Heidelberg 2006, p. 739
  4. ↑ Axel W. Bauer: Internal medicine, neurology and dermatology . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (Eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Heidelberg 2006, p. 739 f.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Willbrand: Is Hitler coming back? Verlag Ludwig Auer Cassianeum 1964, p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and National Socialist of Swedish origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1974
Place of death Borstel near Bad Oldesloe