Hans Joachim Scherer
Hans Joachim Scherer (born May 14, 1906 in Bromberg , † April 16, 1945 in Landshut ) was a German neuropathologist .
Life
Hans Joachim Scherer finished his school career with the matriculation examination in Magdeburg and then studied medicine at the University of Munich from 1925 to 1930 , where he also received his doctorate in 1930. med doctorate was. He then worked under Walther Spielmeyer at the Brain Pathology Institute of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry and the clinical department there under Kurt Schneider , partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . From 1932 he was an assistant doctor at the Pathological Institute of the Charité with Robert Rössle . His research focus was initially on cerebellar pathology, comparative neuro- and later tumor pathology.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was briefly arrested by the Gestapo in August 1933 , probably because of his contacts with Jewish friends with whom he communicated in English in his apartment. In September 1933 he fled to Paris and the same year to Antwerp , where he found a job with the pathologist L. van Bogaert at the anatomical laboratory of the Bunge Institute. He published on glioma development and also researched the pathology of the nervous system. His name appeared in 1936/37 on a list published in London of scientists persecuted in Nazi Germany. He married a Belgian woman, but remained a German citizen after his application for Belgian citizenship was rejected. From the beginning of May 1939 to the spring of 1942 he was employed at the ENT University Clinic in Ghent . In the summer of 1939 he gave lectures in the USA . After the start of the Second World War , he is said to have been arrested by Belgian police on May 10, 1940 and temporarily interned in France. After the German occupation of Belgium by the Wehrmacht , Scherer unsuccessfully tried to take over the management of the Bunge von Bogaert Institute.
From March 1942 he worked at the neuropathological laboratory of the Neurological Research Institute under Viktor von Weizsäcker at the University of Breslau . There he examined the brain pathologically and histologically for "research purposes" the brains of children who had been murdered in the children's department of the Loben sanatorium . Scherer died in the end of the war on April 16, 1945 as a result of a bomb attack on Landshut.
Fonts (selection)
- About giant folds of the gastric mucosa , Bergmann, Munich 1930. From: Frankfurter Zeitschrift f. Pathology. Vol. 40, issue. 2 (also dissertation University of Munich)
- Comparative pathology of the mammalian nervous system, with special consideration of primates: An attempt , G. Thieme, Leipzig 1944
literature
- Udo Benzenhöfer : The medical philosopher Viktor von Weizsäcker. An overview of life and work. Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-49172-0 .
- 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 .
- Jürgen Peiffer , Paul Kleihues : Hans-Joachim Scherer (1906-1945), pioneer in glioma research , Brain Pathology 9: 241-245 (1999)
- Jürgen Peiffer: Brain research in the twilight: examples of deceptive science from the time of National Socialism; Julius Hallervorden - H.-J. Scherer - Berthold Ostertag , Husum: Matthiesen 1997, ISBN 3-7868-4079-2 . (not evaluated)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Jacques Martin: Hans Joachim Scherer (1906-1945) . University of Antwerp, Born Bunge Institute
- ↑ Udo Benzenhöfer: The medical philosopher Viktor von Weizsäcker. An overview of life and work. Göttingen 2007, p. 158f.
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 532
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Hans Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neuropathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1945 |
| Place of death | Landshut |