Hans Großmann (doctor)

Hans Großmann (born March 14, 1895 in Forst near Ansbach ; † August 11, 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German doctor and hygienist .

Live and act

After he had passed his matriculation examination at the old grammar school in Nuremberg in 1914 , Großmann volunteered for the medical service . He was deployed in the field artillery from 1915 and released as a deputy sergeant in reserve at the end of 1917. From September 1918 he studied medicine in Würzburg . As a member of the Epp Freikorps , he took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic in 1919 . Wuerzburg Grossmann 1922 approved and with a dissertation "On brain surgery in general, in particular on Decompressionsoperationen the skull" doctorate .

Großmann then took on an assistant position at the Würzburg University Polyclinic and in 1924 became a research assistant at a research center that carried out experiments on syphilis patients. From 1925 he worked at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Freiburg , where he completed specialist training in bacteriology and serology and worked in the field of syphilis research. From 1931 he was an assistant doctor at the University of Göttingen . There he completed his habilitation in 1932 with "Studies on the occurrence of bacteria, especially streptococci in white mice, at the same time contributions to the streptococcal question".

In May 1933, Großmann joined the NSDAP ( membership no . 2,371,447). He was also a member of the SA and the NSDÄB . In 1934 he was appointed senior assistant to the chair for bacteriology and hygiene at the University of Greifswald . There he researched pneumococci , cholera , streptococci, typhoid and paratyphoid . In Greifswald, Großmann was appointed as a non-official, extraordinary professor, but Kurt Herzberg forced him to apply elsewhere in the administration. In August 1938 Großmann took over a department head at the Hygiene Institute Landsberg an der Warthe . A re-qualification at the University of Berlin was rejected in 1940, whereby Großmann's venia legendi expired. Nevertheless, in 1941 he was appointed to a professorship for hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Posen . According to the historian Henrik Eberle , Großmann was probably actively involved in medical crimes there . The Institute of Hygiene at the University of Poznan carried out checks in various cities on the instructions of the Gauleiter of the Wartheland , Arthur Greiser . Based on the recommendations of the institute, several hundred Poles and Jews from Litzmannstadt and other places who were infected with tuberculosis were murdered . Großmann conducted experimental research on syphilis and Weil's disease . The latter was caused by the urine of rats and occurred mainly in concentration camps and ghettos .

After the war ended, Großmann worked as a bacteriologist for the French military administration from 1945 . At the Bad Kreuznach hospital he published in 1947 on the filtration of paratyphoid pathogens. From 1952 he lived in Bad Münster am Stein and later in Bad Oeynhausen. As professor emeritus he was assigned to the University of Münster .

literature

• Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument". The University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Uhlenhuth , H. Grossmann: Observations on severe general syphilis in rabbits after testicular, intravenous and subcutaneous vaccination. In: Arch. Dermatol. Syph. Volume 152, 1926, pp. 708-737.
2. ↑ Irene Raehlmann: Ergonomics in National Socialism, an analysis of the sociology of science . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 217.
3. ↑ Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument". The University of Greifswald under National Socialism . Böhlau, Cologne 2015, p. 713.