Hanns Löhr (doctor, 1891)

Hanns Löhr: medic and NSDAP functionary in 1933

Johannes Heinrich Löhr , called Hanns Löhr (born September 10, 1891 in Hohensolms ; † October 4, 1941 in Kiel ) was a German internist , SS and SA leader. At the time of National Socialism he was a professor at the University of Kiel and temporarily rector there.

Live and act

Löhr was the son of Pastor Wilhelm Löhr . After completing his school career at the humanistic grammar school in Elberfeld and completing military service, he completed medical studies at the universities of Gießen, Bonn and Kiel from 1911. During the First World War he worked for the German Army as a field medical officer and battalion doctor. After the end of the war he was approved in October 1919 . From 1919 he was a trainee and assistant doctor at the Kiel University Clinic, headed by Alfred Schittenhelm . He received his doctorate in Kiel in 1920 with the dissertation Attempt for the therapeutic use of copper salt solutions in the treatment of typhus abdominalis and completed his habilitation there in 1925 with a paper on thyroxine . From 1925 to 1934 he was chief physician in the internal department of the “Sarepta” hospital in Bethel near Bielefeld .

Oriented towards National Socialism, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 478.474) and the SA as early as 1931 , where he rose to SA medical group leader. In addition, from October 1932 to July 1934 he was NSDAP district leader in Bielefeld-Land. As district leader, he played a key role in the expulsion of the theologian Wilhelm Vischer from the Bethel Theological School and in denouncing the director of the institution Fritz von Bodelschwingh in order to replace him with a state commissioner.

In 1934, against the vote of the faculty, Löhr was appointed professor of internal medicine at the University of Kiel, where he taught until his death. As a shop steward for the NSDAP at the Medical Faculty in Kiel and a National Socialist multifunctional, he made a significant contribution to the political orientation of the Faculty and the University of Kiel. From 1935 to 1941 he was the leader of the Gaudozenten in the Gau Schleswig-Holstein. In 1936 Löhr switched from the SA to the SS (SS no. 276.855), where he achieved the rank of SS brigade leader in autumn 1941 . He was an employee of the SD and since 1935 head of the race policy office of the NSDAP in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1937 he became head of the district office for public health. In January 1938 he became President of the Scientific Academy of the Nazi Lecturer Association in Kiel. Löhr, who was Vice-Rector several times, was appointed Rector of Kiel University shortly before his death in May 1941. He took over the rectorate from Paul Ritterbusch , with whom he had previously published some writings.

The fanatical National Socialist Hanns Löhr was one of the most influential personalities at Kiel University until his death. His friend, Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse, wrote about him in an obituary: “You had already made a name for yourself as a doctor before you came to power… You didn't need to throw yourself into the political struggle, and since you were one of the 'bad guys National Socialists' known to put your position and your existence at risk ... At the time you confessed and declared: Here I stand, the chief doctor Hanns Löhr, I am a National Socialist, I follow Adolf Hitler. "

Löhr was married to Marianne Dieterici (* 1898), the daughter of the Kiel physicist Conrad Dieterici . The surgeon Wilhelm Christian Löhr (1889–1941) was his brother.

Publications

• An attempt at the therapeutic use of copper salt solutions in the treatment of the abdominal type. Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1920 [dissertation].
• About the position and importance of medicine in the National Socialist state. Nornen, Berlin undated [1934].
• ed. with Paul Ritterbusch : The University of Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein. Speeches and lectures on the “Kiel University Week” (June 14-21, 1937). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1937.
• with Walter Schulze and Paul Ritterbusch: Basic questions of the German university and science. Edited by the Reichsdozentenführung. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1938.
• Nature and meaning of the National Socialist Academy of the NSD Lecturer Association of the Christian Albrechts University. In: Kieler Blätter. Born 1938, H. 1, pp. 28-40.
• About the value and achievement of the Kiel National Socialist Academic Academy of the NSD Lecturer Association. Retrospect and Prospect. In: Kieler Blätter. Jg. 1939, H. 2, pp. 272-275.
• Superstition and medicine. JA Barth, Leipzig 1940 (1942 ² , 1943 ³ ).
• At the beginning of the war lectures for the German people. In: Kieler Blätter. Born in 1940, H. 1/2, pp. 16-19.
• with Paul Ritterbusch : Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. Edited on behalf of the Scientific Academy of the NSD Lecturer Association of the Christian Albrechts University. Hirzel, Leipzig 1940.
• Science and theology. A two-thousand-year struggle. Volkschaft, Dortmund 1944.

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 111.
• Helmut Heiber : The capitulation of the high schools, the year 1933 and its topics (= university under the swastika. Part 2). Volume 2, Saur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-22631-4 , pp. 397-403.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048. The time of National Socialism ). 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Carsten Mish: "Guide to the University". The Kiel rectors in the Nazi era. In: Christoph Cornelißen , Carsten Mish (Hrsg.): Science on the border, the University of Kiel under National Socialism. Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0240-4 , pp. 33-55.
• Karl-Werner Ratschko: Withdrawal of doctoral degrees from Kiel University during the Nazi era. In: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Ärzteblatt. Volume 67, Issue 3, March 2014, pp. 54–58 ( online ).
• Karl-Werner Ratschko: Kiel university physician in the time of National Socialism. The medical faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in the “Third Reich”. Klartext, Essen 2014.
• Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Doctors in the Westphalian deaconess institution Sarepta 1890-1970. Edited by Matthias Benad, Bethel, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-922463-99-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Büttner: Chemical thinking in medicine. The history of the laboratory of the 1st Medical Clinic of the University of Kiel. Volume 1, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, p. 51 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 377.
3. ^ ^{A b} Winfried Süss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, p. 471.
4. ^ Matthias Benad: On the relationship between doctors and theologians in diaconal institutions during the twenties. The von Bodelschwingschen Anstalten Bethel as an example. In: Traugott Jähnichen , Norbert Friedrich (Ed.): Protestantism and social question. Profiles in the time of the Weimar Republic. Lit, Münster 2000, p. 132 f.
5. ↑ Michael Grüttner: Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, p. 111.
6. ^ Online biography on the Kieler Scholars Directory
7. ↑ ^{a b} Grenzlanduniversität 'Kiel
8. ^ Professor Ritterbusch goes to Berlin . No. 121 . Nordische Rundschau, Kiel May 26, 1941, Economic Archive of the Institute for the World Economy, Kiel ( dfg-viewer.de [accessed on March 8, 2019]).
9. ↑ Quoted from: Karl-Werner Ratschko: Kieler Hochschulmediziner in der Zeit des Nationalozialismus , Essen 2014, p. 194.
10. ↑ Herbert A. Neumann: Blood and enzymes. Life and work of the hematologist Georg Wilhelm Löhr. Berlin 2013, p. 18.