Hans Knauer (physician)

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Hans Knauer , full name Johannes Joseph Karl Knauer (born September 9, 1895 in Exin , Province of Posen , † July 5, 1952 in Bonn ) was a German pediatrician and professor at the University of Bonn at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Knauer was the son of a senior customs officer. He finished his school career in March 1914 with the Abitur at a humanistic high school . He then did his military service as a one-year volunteer . He took part in the First World War with interruptions from August 1914 and after the end of the war, awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, retired from the army as a medical officer with the rank of lieutenant of the reserve .

In 1916, during the war, he began studying medicine, which he completed at the Universities of Göttingen and Breslau. He completed his studies in 1922 with the state examination and was approved in the same year and in 1923 as Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a medical intern and assistant doctor at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau, where he completed his habilitation in 1928 and then worked as a senior physician and private lecturer, and from September 1933 as an associate professor.

Politically, he was involved in nationalist organizations and parties, and in 1919 he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and in 1921 the National Association of German Officers . From 1919 to 1928 he was a member of the DNVP . He then turned to National Socialism and became a member of the NSDAP in August 1931 ( membership number 872.030) and at that time joined the NS-Ärztebund . As an early party member in 1933 he became chairman of the Nazi teachers' association and leader of the teaching staff at the University of Breslau. From 1933 until his expulsion in 1940 he was a member of the SA , most recently as a standard doctor with the rank of Obersturmbannführer. He was also a member of the NSV , the NSKOV , the NS-Reichskriegerbund and until January 1944 of the NS-Dozentbund .

Against the will of the medical faculty of the University of Bonn, the National Socialist Knauer was appointed to the Bonn chair for paediatrics for political reasons at the beginning of October 1934 and was appointed director of the university children's clinic there. Shortly after his appointment, the University Commission of the NSDAP appointed him steward of the NSDAP at the Medical Faculty in Bonn. In professional circles it was considered scientifically subordinate. In July 1943 he was discharged from university. The background to this was long-standing disputes over professional, party political and personal matters. He then practiced as a resident doctor and did not return to university.

In his first marriage Knauer was married to Lucia, née Pietsch (1901–1937). The couple had four children. In 1939 he married Valerie-Gretel, nee Dinny, in his second marriage. From this marriage there were three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • A contribution to the question of salaam cramps , Breslau, Med.Diss ., 1923
  • Results of lipoid metabolism research with esp. Berücks. d. Conditions in Childhood , S. Karger, Berlin 1928
  • The blood transfusion in childhood , Enke, Stuttgart 1935

literature

  • Ralf Forsbach : The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5 .
  • Ralf Forsbach: A lonely National Socialist. The Bonn pediatrician Hans Knauer (1895-1952) . In: Kren Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelck (eds.): Universities and colleges in National Socialism and in the early post-war period , Steiner, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-515-08175-5 , pp. 167-182 (not evaluated)
  • 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. 92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 92.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 165f.
  3. ^ Ralf Forsbach: The medical faculty in the Nazi era. In: Thomas Becker (Ed.): Between dictatorship and a new beginning: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich and in the post-war period , Göttingen 2008, p. 140
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 319
personal data
SURNAME Knauer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knauer, Johannes Joseph Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Exin
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1952
Place of death Bonn