Hans-Joachim Barnewitz

Hans-Joachim Barnewitz (born August 18, 1892 in Charlottenburg , † April 19, 1965 in Lübbecke ) was a German general practitioner in World War II .

Life

Hans-Joachim Barnewitz received his Abitur in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 1910 . He studied in Jena, Kiel, Berlin, Freiburg and Rostock . Barnewitz joined the Prussian Army as a volunteer during the First World War and took part in the First World War. In 1917 he approved in Schwerin and obtained his doctorate on the subject of an epigastrius parasiticus in a cat in 1920 at the University of Rostock . Until 1924 he was an assistant doctor at the pathological institutes in Rostock and Kiel . He then went to the Hygiene Institute in Kiel in 1925 and then to Bonn. From 1925 to 1928 he was at the Essen Dermatology Clinic . From 1928 until he rejoined the army, he worked as a resident specialist in skin and venereal diseases in Schwerin.

On March 1, 1938, he was returned to the army and promoted to chief medical officer . His place of work at this time was the military hospital in Königsberg . During the general mobilization Barnewitz was appointed on August 26, 1939 divisional surgeon of the 228th Infantry Division appointed, with whom he on invasion of Poland took part. On February 5, 1940, he transferred to the 6th Infantry Division in the same function . With this he denied the western campaign . He then stayed with the unit as an occupying force in France .

On June 19, 1941, Barnewitz was appointed chief medical officer with the liaison officer to the royal Italian high command in Africa . There he rose on October 13, 1941 to the corps physician of the German Africa Corps . He took part in the siege, later also in the conquest, of Tobruk and was involved in the fighting in the course of Operation Battleaxe and Operation Crusader , as well as in the reconquest of Benghazi and the first battle of El-Alamein .

On September 5, 1942 after he had called in sick, he was evacuated from Africa to Germany and the leader Reserve of the Army High Command added. After his health recovered, he was appointed commander of the Thorn medical department on May 10, 1943 . On June 2, 1944, Barnewitz was awarded the German Silver Cross.

After the evacuation of the hospital in Thorn due to the Soviet advance marches, he was transferred back to the Führerreserve on November 1, 1944 and during this time Barnewitz served in the military district command XX. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was also corps doctor of the deputy XII. Army Corps , where he was charged with running the business. On January 1, 1945 he was finally his corps doctor and was also a doctor of the military district XII . He was promoted to general physician on March 1, 1945. On May 8, 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Allies , from which he was released in 1946.

After the war he settled as a doctor in Schleswig-Holstein . He did not seek an exception in the Bundeswehr .

literature

• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abberger-Bitthorn. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 , p. 203.
• Samuel W. Mitcham : Rommel's desert commanders: the men who served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942 . Praeger Security Internat., Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99436-5 , pp. 119 ff.
• Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present . Publishing house of the state office of the Mecklenburg Medical Association, 1929, p. 414.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany): Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Official supplement . 1917, p. 157 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
2. ↑ Schwerin's address book: Schweriner Wohnungsanzeiger . Bärensprung, 1928, p. 117 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
3. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 536.