Hans Joachim Sewering

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Hans Joachim Sewering (born January 30, 1916 in Bochum , † June 18, 2010 in Dachau ) was a German doctor , internist and medical professional .

Life

Hans Joachim Sewering was born the son of a miner. In 1933 he joined the SS (membership number 143,000). The following year he became a member of the NSDAP (number 185,805). After studying medicine in Munich and Vienna with state exams and a doctorate, he first worked from 1942 as an assistant doctor in a tuberculosis hospital in Schönbrunn near Dachau . He also had to look after people in a home for the disabled. From there he referred the then 13-year-old patient Babette Fröwis to the so-called “ children's department ” of the Eglfing-Haar sanatorium , where she died two weeks later - probably as one of the numerous victims in Eglfing-Haar according to the National Socialist Ideology were murdered (see Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost ). According to more recent records, there are nine individually written transfers from Sewering to Eglfing-Haar, five of which died there. Sewering denied all his life having known what happened to the patients in Eglfing-Haar.

In 1947 Sewering settled in his own practice in Dachau after completing his hospital career as an internist for lung and bronchial medicine. Soon afterwards he became a member of the CSU and became involved in professional politics. In 1951 he was elected to the board of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and from 1972 to 1992 its chairman. From 1952 to 1992 Sewering was a member of the representative assembly of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. He was a major designer of statutory health insurance law in the Federal Republic of Germany. Sewering represented the liberal professions from 1971 to 1992 as a member of the Bavarian Senate . From 1955 to 1991 Sewering was President of the Bavarian State Medical Association and a member of the board of the German Medical Association . After serving as its vice-president from 1959 to 1973, he was president of the central organization of medical self-administration until 1978, during which time he was president of the German Medical Association . Here he introduced significant reform ideas for the license to practice medicine for doctors. The model training regulations of the 1970s, 1987 and 1991 also go back to Sewering. He suggested expert commissions / arbitration boards at the state medical associations. Sewering consolidated the long-term security of the medical pension schemes and opened them up to employed doctors. Sewering had been a representative of the German Medical Association on the Standing Committee of Doctors of the European Community since its establishment in 1959 and was its General Secretary from 1965 to 1968. He also promoted the dialogue with the medical organizations of the neighboring countries of the EU and made a significant contribution to the establishment of medical self-administration in the Eastern European countries after the political "turning point" in 1990 through suitable counseling concepts. In 1993 Sewering aspired to the presidency of the World Medical Association , after he had been involved in the board from 1966 to 1992 and secured its financial continuity as treasurer. Protests from abroad led to the candidacy being renounced, which, according to Karsten Vilmar, should not be seen as an admission of guilt.

In 1993, Babette Fröwis' brother filed a criminal complaint for involvement in the murder of his sister, but the Munich public prosecutor closed the investigation in 1995 because they considered Sewering's statements to be "completely credible". The German Medical Association first tried to ignore the new findings on Sewering. In the laudation on his 80th birthday, there was not a critical word to be read in Deutsches Ärzteblatt about the allegations against Sewering regarding possible involvement in the euthanasia crimes of the National Socialists. In a tribute ten years later, not only was his controversial role in the death of Babette Fröwis mentioned, but also a billing scandal in the 1970s. However, on the occasion of his death, an obituary appeared in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt in which the authors, President of the Medical Association Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe and his predecessor Karsten Vilmar , did not even mention the words “National Socialism” and “Third Reich” under the title Designer in the service of the medical profession - let alone Sewering Entanglement in the Nazi state. This provoked the protest of a group of over 80 medical historians, science historians, doctors and psychotherapists - at their head the Munich historian Gerrit Hohendorf, the chairman of the Association for the History of Medicine Heiner Fangerau and the President of the Society for the History of Science Bettina Wahrig - who are all in one open letter to the German Medical Association complained that the National Socialist past was not openly dealt with by medical association officials. This letter was published in issue 31/32 of Deutsches Ärzteblatt on August 9, 2010.

honors and awards

literature

Michael H. Kater: Doctors as Hitler's helpers . Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-203-79005-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Time online, last accessed July 29, 2010
  2. ↑ Dtsch Arztebl 2008; 105 (50): A2700 online, last viewed on July 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe et al: Obituary of the German Medical Association in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 24, 2010
  4. ↑ Karsten Vilmar: Obituary by the Hans Neuffer Foundation in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Oliver Das Gupta: The Medical President and the Dead Girl , sueddeutsche.de , last viewed on July 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ Dtsch Arztebl 1996; 93 (4): A-205 / B-177 / C-165 online, last viewed on May 28, 2008
  7. ↑ Dtsch Arztebl 2006; 103 (4): A-209 / B-181 / C-177 online, last viewed on July 29, 2010
  8. ↑ s. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 107/2010 Hans Joachim Sewering dead: Designer in the service of the medical profession last viewed on July 29, 2010
  9. ↑ Hohendorf, Gerrit; Fangerau, Heiner; Truig, Bettina (2010) On the obituary for Prof. Hans Joachim Sewering - No reference to his role in National Socialism (DÄB 28-29 / 2010 "Designer in the service of the medical profession" by Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe and Karsten Vilmar) Deutsches Ärzteblatt 107, issue 32-33: A 1520
  10. ↑ See Ralf Forsbach , Controversial Medical History. Sewering in National Socialism, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 28, 2010, p. N3. [1]
  11. Jump up over an award. Honor for former Nazi medics provokes protests, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 122 of May 28, 2008, p. 18.
  12. ^ Professional Association of German Internists : Statement by the German Society for Internal Medicine on the award of the Günther Budelmann Medal to Prof. Hans-Joachim Sewering (pdf; 48 kB) from July 15, 2008
predecessor Office successor
Ernst Fromm (doctor) President, German Medical Association
1973–1978 		Karsten Vilmar
personal data
SURNAME Sewering, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sewering, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, medical officer and Nazi doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2010
Place of death Dachau