Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel

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Schulz-Merkel (1944)

Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel (born April 6, 1913 in Opole ; † September 2, 2000 in Marktoberdorf ) was a German doctor, medical officer and medical officer.

Life

As the son of the royal district physician and personal physician to the sister of Wilhelm II , the medical councilor Dr. Otto Schulz-Merkel, Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel was a godchild of the emperor. In March 1933, Schulz-Merkel graduated from the Ratsgymnasium Goslar .

In 1933 he joined the 15th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr as a flag junior . He studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University , the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He became active in the Corps Makaria Munich (1933) and the Cartel Corps Borussia Berlin (1934). After the state examination in Berlin in 1939 , he was licensed as a doctor and was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and promoted to medical officer in 1942 . As a troop doctor of the I. Department of Panzer Regiment 35 in the central section of the Eastern Front (World War II) , he took over the leadership of the 1st Department on July 22, 1943, after the department commander Major Hans-Detloff von Cossel in a battle with Soviet tanks in Now . Slobodka had fallen. When the regiment attacked Korowatitschi on November 19, 1943, instead of the sick department commander, he again took over the leadership of the I. Department. 22 tanks and 9 anti-tank guns were destroyed and 250 Red Army soldiers were killed. Schulz-Merkel was wounded and had to give up leadership. For this mission he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on December 23, 1943. He was transferred to 1st Company in Field Replacement Battalion 84 and was most recently senior staff doctor .

After the war, Schulz-Merkel became a medical officer. He lived in Marktoberdorf in the Allgäu, where he headed the health department. He retired as Chief Medical Director and died at the age of 87. He renounced the state funeral to which he was entitled as a knight's cross . His son Detloff bears the name of the fallen department commander. He also became active at Makaria Munich and was a general practitioner in Kempten.

Reception and criticism

The former sergeant major Hans Luther wrote the book SOS in the Panzer Storm about his war mission in the medical squadron of the former Panzer Regiment 35 and dedicated it to Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel, in which he was also referred to as "Panzerdoktor". Luther had this book self-published. In the foyer of the medical academy of the Bundeswehr , next to the Auditorium Maximum named after Hans Scholl , there was a memorial wall with knight's cross winners from the medical services, including Schulz-Merkel and Ernst Gadermann . In this regard, the theologian and traditional care critic Jakob Knab said that for Schulz-Merkel and Gadermann, Peter Bamm's saying that the "invisible flag of humanity" waved over the medical service and the hospitals on the eastern front did not apply. The memorial wall had to be removed in 2013 “as part of modernization measures”. Since then there have been five information pillars in this area "with essential elements about the traditional understanding of the medical services of the Bundeswehr".

Awards

Fonts

  • Successful surgical treatment of nasopharyngeal fibroids . Dissertation University of Berlin, Charlottenburg 1941.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 88/800; 15/401.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Successes of the surgical treatment of nasopharyngeal fibroids .
  3. ↑ The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II (Schulz-Merkel's report in English translation)
  4. ^ Personnel files in the archive of the Corps Makaria Munich
  5. ^ Schulz-Merkel
  6. ↑ "Church was our pride" - 50 years of the Protestant Church: Georg Urban remembers. all-in.de, June 23, 2005.
  7. ↑ Personal details . In: Public Health. Volume 31, G. Thieme, 1969, p. 334.
  8. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 88 , 941
  9. ↑ [1]
  10. ↑ End for "Panzerdoktor"? New Germany
  11. ↑ Book SOS in the Tank Storm! at DNB.
  12. ↑ Roland Lory: In the spirit of tradition. The Bundeswehr Medical Academy pays homage to Wehrmacht soldiers. Neues Deutschland , April 30, 2012. ( published on the website of the Peace Research Working Group )
  13. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 692.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz-Merkel, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panzerdoktor (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, medical officer and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2000
Place of death Marktoberdorf