Hans Demme

Hans Hermann Karl Demme (born February 12, 1900 in Alt-Kalzenau , † February 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German neurologist and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Early years and studies

Hans Demme was the son of the doctor Carl Demme and his wife Frieda, nee Conradi. He finished his school career in 1917 with the final examination at the private high school of Tideboehl in Riga . From December 1918 to August 1920 he was a volunteer in the shock troop in the Baltic Landwehr . At the same time he started studying medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Dorpat . In Dorpat he joined the Corps Curonia-Dorpat . He continued his studies in 1920 at the University of Rostock and graduated it there in 1924 with state examination and doctoral Dr. med. from. He then completed his medical internship in Rostock , Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1926 he worked as an assistant in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1926 to 1927 at the Hygiene Institute at the University of Rostock. From 1927 to 1933 he completed his specialist training as a neurologist at the neurological clinic of the General Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf with Max Nonne . In the meantime , he completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1930 and was then a private lecturer. He held his inaugural lecture in November 1930 at the Eppendorf AK with the title “Microbiological Problems in Neurology”.

time of the nationalsocialism

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in early May 1933 and of the SA in November 1933 . During the Weimar Republic he was a supporter of the DVP . In addition to medical professional organizations, he also belonged to the Nazi lecturers' association. From the end of 1933 he represented the private lecturers of the medical faculty at the University of Hamburg. From January 1934 to 1945 he headed the neurological department at the General Hospital in Hamburg-Barmbek .

In 1934 Demme was appointed steward of the NSDAP Reich leadership at the Medical Faculty in Hamburg. In this role he wrote "regular reports on colleagues and statements for individual appeal procedures to the chairman of the Hamburg Medical Association, Willy Holzmann ". According to Hendrik van den Bussche , Demme, as a steward of the NSDAP, drove “a cautious course”, as he “highly valued the aspect of academic qualification and never got into a confrontation with the faculty or wanted to get into it”.

Demme, who rose to the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SA at the end of January 1941 , became an assistant for racial hygiene at this Nazi organization in early June 1935 . Furthermore, he became a medical assessor at the Hereditary Health Court , where, after the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring came into force, he prepared reports and helped to decide on the ordering of compulsory sterilization . He was appointed by the medical faculty of the University of Hamburg in 1936 as a non-official extraordinary professor and in 1939 as an adjunct professor. From 1935 to 1938 he was a member of the advisory board of the Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists . From October 1940 he was a member of the Senate of the Colonial Medical Academy of the NSDAP . During the Second World War he was a medical officer in the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945 , most recently with the rank of medical officer and consulting neurologist in military district X, based in Hamburg.

post war period

After the end of the war Demme was interned in 1945/46 . In February 1946 he was suspended from medical practice by the Hamburg health administration because of his National Socialist activities and his employment with the AK Barmbek was terminated. He later worked as a resident neurologist in Hamburg. In the denazification process , Demme was initially classified as a “fellow traveler” (1947), then as a “exonerated” (1949). He had been a consulting neurologist at the Hafenkrankenhaus since 1950 and was re-admitted to the faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Hamburg in June 1951. From 1959 he was the senior physician at the General Hospital in Hamburg Harburg .

In his first marriage Demme was married to Enni, née Grabbe (died 1939). The couple had three children. In 1959 he married Erika Kentmann in his second marriage.

Fonts (selection)

• About the practical efficiency of newer methods for the accumulation of typhus bacteria in the stool , Rostock 1924 (also med. Dissertation)
• The practical and theoretical importance of the protein ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid in nerve diseases , Springer, Berlin 1930. From: Archiv f. Psychiatry and Nervous diseases. Vol. 92, H. 4. 5. (also medical habilitation thesis at the University of Hamburg)
• CSF diagnostics in clinics and practices. Lehmann, Munich 1935.

literature

• Hendrik van den Bussche: Academic careers in the “Third Reich”. In: Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the “Third Reich”. Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-496-00477-6 , pp. 63-117.
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 38.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. A contribution to collective biographical research , Lit, Münster, Hamburg London 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6495-2 (also dissertation at the University of Hamburg)

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hans Demme. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hans Demme. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
2. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. P. 59.
3. ↑ See registration of Hans Demme. In: Rostocker matriculation portal . Retrieved January 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. P. 65.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. S. 173.
6. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. P. 34.
7. ↑ Hendrik van den Bussche: Academic careers in the "Third Reich". P. 107 ff.
8. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. S. 174.
9. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. P. 104.
10. ↑ Christine Pieper: The social structure of the chief physicians of the General Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek 1913 to 1945. S. 172f.
11. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy. P. 38.
12. ↑ Who is Who , Volume 13. Schmidt-Römhild, 1958, p. 199.