Hans Klein (pathologist)
Hans Klein (born November 18, 1912 in Heiligenwald , † November 21, 1984 in Heidelberg ) was a German pathologist and university professor.
Life
Klein, who holds a doctorate in pathology, was senior physician under Berthold Ostertag at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin . Together with Ostertag, he autopsied children who were murdered in the children's department of the municipal psychiatric clinic for children and adolescents in Wiesengrund ( Berlin-Wittenau ) as part of child euthanasia . In 1939 he became a member of the SS . From 1944 onwards, Klein worked as a senior pathologist at the SS-Sanatorium Hohenlychen Clinic , where he had been posted from the Virchow Hospital. In January 1945, Klein carried out histological examinations in Hohenlychen on the lymph nodes of 20 Jewish children who were victims of the TB attempts by the physician Kurt Heissmeyers in Neuengamme concentration camp . These children were hanged on Bullenhuser Damm on the night of April 21, 1945 to cover up the crime. Klein also cooperated scientifically with Hans Nachtsheim .
After the end of the war , he completed his habilitation in 1949 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with the work Das Pelger-Gene and its manifestation. I. The Pelger anomaly of the leukocytes and the pathological anatomy of the newborn homocygote Pelger rabbit: A contribution to the form of fetal chondrodystrophy and became a lecturer there. From 1961 Klein taught at the University of Heidelberg as an adjunct professor, in 1965 became head of department at the Heidelberg Institute for Forensic Medicine and was a member of the Science Council. After the end of the war, Klein was not prosecuted.
literature
- 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 .
- Günther Schwarberg : The SS doctor and the children. Report on the Bullenhuser Damm murder Documentation: Daniel Haller. Edited by Henri Nannen Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1979, 1980 (2 volumes) Awarded the Anne Frank Prize in 1988. Frequent new editions, also under the title: The SS doctor and the children from Bullenhuser Damm z. B. Steidl, Göttingen 1994 ISBN 388243306X - Numerous translations (English, Romanian, Polish).
- Günther Schwarberg: Hanging twenty children takes a long time . In: Die Zeit , 2005, No. 15, April 6, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 314.
- ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Ed.): Rassenforschung at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes before and after 1933 , Göttingen 2003, p. 337.
- ↑ Alexander von Schwerin: Experimentalization of humans: The geneticist Hans Nachtsheim and the comparative hereditary pathology 1920-1945 . Göttingen, Wallstein 2004, ISBN 3-89244-773-X , p. 266.
- ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Ed.): Rassenforschung an Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes before and after 1933 , Göttingen 2003, p. 247.
- ^ Günther Schwarberg: The SS doctor and the children from Bullenhuser Damm , Göttingen 1988, p. 176.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1984 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |