Hans Aloys Schmitz

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Hans Aloys Schmitz (born July 1, 1899 in Lobberich ; † March 6, 1973 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German child psychiatrist who was involved as an expert in the T4 campaign .

Life

From 1934 Schmitz was a member of the SA and a relay doctor in the NSKK . In 1935 he was promoted to senior physician at the Bonn sanatorium and nursing home under the direction of Kurt Pohlisch . From 1937 Schmitz was the head doctor of the Rheinische Kinderanstalt for Mental Abnormalities in Bonn, where hereditary biology reports were drawn up. On September 5, 1940, Schmitz, as a founding member of the German Society for Child Psychiatry and Curative Education , gave a lecture on his “inspection station”, where the diagnosis “educationally disabled” was tantamount to a death sentence. Schmitz had already pointed out to curative education that they had taken too long to look after hereditary illnesses, and now "selective diagnostics" were required. "Only by looking at the individual as part of his family and as a link in the chain of his ancestors is it possible to make the important decision: ready to be eradicated or in need of support."

Schmitz decided through his expert opinion on the killing in the Waldniel Clinic ( Waldniel ), which Hermann Wesse carried out according to his own confession . According to his own statements, he was also an expert for special courts and the People's Court . He and his boss Pohlisch had been evaluating the T4 campaign since July 30, 1940. Schmitz received the honorary title of senior medical advisor and had been a lecturer in Bonn since 1942.

In 1946 he was relieved of his post, but was able to continue working in the State Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Bonn from 1947 until 1964. In 1949 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Bonn . In 1950 the German Association for Youth Psychiatry , a successor organization to the “German Society for Child Psychiatry and Curative Education”, was founded; Schmitz became an honorary member there.

On the occasion of an inquiry into a compensation case concerning a disabled child killed in 1944, Schmitz untruthfully claimed in 1954 that the file could no longer be found.

Fonts

  • The personality diagnosis: the foundation of an organological approach in the area of ​​the soul (= collection of psychiatric and neurological individual representations. Vol. 20). Thieme, Leipzig 1942.
  • Disease symptom or personality trait? Critical contribution to the concept of constitution (= inaugural lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn am Rhein. H. 17). Bonn University Print Shop, Bonn 1942.
  • The direction view, a bridge between medicine and education. In: Studium Generale. Vol. 2 (1949), H. 3, pp. 166-171.
  • Characteristic of the organic disturbances. In: Acta Paedopsychiatrica. Vol. 28 (1961), p. 287 ff.
  • Pressure phenomena as essential factors in the delinquency behavior of immature people. In: Monthly for criminology and criminal law reform. Vol. 45 (1962), p. 1 ff.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 550.
  • Ernst Klee: "Euthanasia" in the Third Reich. The "destruction of life unworthy of life". Completely revised new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 .
  • Andreas Kinast: The prison doctors. In: "The child is not able to train ..." Euthanasia in the Waldniel children's department 1941–1943. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89498-259-1 , pp. 67-112.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 14th edition (1983). P. 4847.
  2. ↑ Ernst Klee: "Euthanasia" in the Third Reich. The "destruction of life unworthy of life". Completely revised new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 , p. 351.
  3. ^ According to the letter of the psychiatrist Wilhelm Kleine from April 19, 1947, Ks 2/63 GStA Ffm., Quoted in n. Klee: dictionary of persons. 2003, p. 550.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: "Euthanasia" in the Third Reich. The "destruction of life unworthy of life". Completely revised new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18674-7 , p. 491.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Hans Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz, Hans Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child psychiatrist and T4 expert
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Praise
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1973
Place of death Bad Neuenahr