Harry Marnitz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Harry Xaver Marnitz ( Latvian Harijs Marnics ) (born June 2, 1894 in the pastorate Üxküll in the Livonia Governorate of the Russian Empire ; † November 2, 1984 ) was a masseur and doctor who discovered that pathological changes in the spine often caused changes in the periphery ( Legs, arms) or precede them. He developed the thesis that all corresponding zones (key zones) associated with a primary disease must also be treated. He is therefore considered to be the inventor of key zone massage .

Life

The sixth child of pastor Karl Xaver Marnitz (1855-1919) first attended the classical high school in Birkenruh (Lat. Bērzaine) near Wenden . After graduating from high school, Marnitz enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Dorpat , where he first received training in Swedish massage and therapeutic gymnastics, then worked as an assistant to the lecturer in training and performed the tasks of a masseur at the surgical university clinic. He was a member of the Fraternitas Rigensis .

At the end of 1918 he joined the Baltic State Army , which together with German Freicorps, after the collapse of German military power, fought unsuccessfully against Bolshevism ; his father was murdered by the Bolsheviks in a prison in Riga in early 1919 .

From 1920 he continued his medical studies at the University of Königsberg in Prussia, in 1922 he passed the "medical examination" there and worked at the university medical clinic. After it became known that Marnitz had learned massage and therapeutic gymnastics in Dorpat, he was asked to take over the massage treatments in the physical therapy department, which he did for financial reasons. In 1924 he received his doctorate in Gdansk Dr. med., In 1926 he returned to his homeland, which had meanwhile become the Republic of Latvia . At the University of Riga he passed the state medical examination in 1927 and emigrated to Germany in 1928, where he worked as a representative in various hospitals (mainly 1928–30 in Leipzig ) and for resident doctors until 1931 . He then settled down as a country doctor in the Danzig area and moved his practice to the city of Danzig in 1933.

Since 1926 Marnitz was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . He was a holder of the Golden Party Badge and a member of the Racial Policy Office of the NSDAP . In 1939 he was drafted into the naval artillery in Pillau and promoted to the SA medical standard leader. In 1940 he moved to Bromberg as a medical officer , where his two children were born. From 1941 to the end of 1943 Marnitz was the head of the “Health and People Care” department in the General Commissioner of the German Civil Administration of the General District of Latvia in Riga . In this function he signed orders that are now considered Nazi crimes. So he was involved in the extermination of mentally ill people. On the other hand, he ensured the improvement of the position of the Latvian medical staff and the improvement of medical care for the Latvian population. After conflicts with his superiors and the SS , Marnitz left the Osteinsatz at the end of 1943. 1945-1946 he was interned in Neumünster and then lived until 1949 unemployed in the West German Schüttorf in the county of Bentheim . In 1949 he got a job as a masseur and physiotherapist in the deaconess hospital in Bremen , where he also learned chiropractic .

In 1954 he settled in Bremen with his own practice, his institute for chiropractic, massage and physiotherapy .

Works

  • Harry Marnitz: The eye injuries caused by explosions and gunshots in the civilian population of East Prussia in the post-war period. Medical dissertation, Königsberg i. Pr. , 1923
  • Harry Marnitz: What should the massage therapist of reflexology know . Bremen, self-published, 1956
  • Harijs Marnics: Kāvi pār Daugavu; atceres un apceres par Latvijas likteņiem no 1941. līdz 1943. g. Apgāds Latvija, Weilheim / Obb., 1958.
  • Harijs Marnics: Mūsu baltā Daugava: stāsts ar attēliem par Daugavu, laivām un laiviniekiem . Grāmatu draugs, Brooklyn, NY, 1966.
  • Harry Marnitz: Unused ways of manual treatment. Haug, Heidelberg, 1971
  • Harry Marnitz: Northern lights over the Düna. Critical considerations and memories of the German occupation in Latvia 1941–1943. Michelstadt, Neuthor-Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-88578-047-8 . German edition of the Latvian Memoirs ( "Kāvi pār ..." ) from 1958.

Awards

  • 1973 Wilhelm Rohrbach Medal for services in physiotherapy

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance sheet of the storm department leadership, Vol. 9, 1939, p. 19.
  2. ^ Anton Weiss-Wendt: Murder without hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Syracuse University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8156-3228-3 , p. 148
  3. ↑ Kārlis Kangeris: The Return and the use of German Balts in General District Latvia 1941-1945. In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 2. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12299-7 , pp. 385–428, here p. 414 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Sven Jüngerkes: German occupation administration in Latvia from 1941 to 1945. A communication and cultural history of National Socialist organizations. UVK, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 978-3-86764-270-5 . In this book the longer case study: Membership Expectations and Conflicts - Harry Marnitz. Pp. 352-390

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Marnitz, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marnitz, Harry Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German masseur and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ikšķile , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1984