Heinrich Gißel

Georg Karl Heinrich Gißel (born May 17, 1902 in Kassel ; † July 24, 1944 in Italy ) was a German surgeon , professor at the University of Rostock and a high-ranking Nazi functionary.

While still at school, he worked in military groups in 1918/19. After graduating from high school in Kassel in 1921, he worked as a pharmacist intern from 1921 to 1924, and from 1923 as a pharmacist's assistant in Kassel to finance his studies. From 1922 to 1928 he studied medicine and pharmacy at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin until the state examination in pharmacy in 1926 and a Dr. med. 1928 in Rostock. From 1928 to 1929 he was a medical intern at the Surgical Clinic in Göttingen, in Rostock and Munich. From 1929 to 1930 he was a volunteer assistant there. From 1930 he was assistant, from 1935 private lecturer and senior physician, from 1938 lecturer, from 1940 adj. Professor at the University of Rostock. In 1943 he was finally appointed a regular associate professor in Rostock. Since 1933 he was a specialist in surgery. From October 1939 to 1944 he served in the Wehrmacht, most recently as senior staff doctor . He received high awards. He was killed by partisans in Italy in 1944.

Gißel was already responsible for university sports in conjunction with the NS student union before 1933 . He joined the NSDAP in May 1933 and the SA in July 1933, and worked in the SA as a doctor, most recently with the rank of Sanitätssturmbannführer . After completing his habilitation in 1934, he joined the Nazi teachers' association and in November 1934 became the leader of the teaching staff at the University of Rostock and from 1935 head of the Nazi teachers association in Rostock. In April 1937 he was appointed Gaudozentenbundführer of the NSDDB for Mecklenburg at the suggestion of the predecessor and rector Ernst-Heinrich Brill . This was linked to a main office in the district administration . In 1943 Brill received the NSDAP's Golden Decoration . As a surgeon, he was involved in forced sterilization operations.

Works

• with Paul-Georg Schmidt : Pulmonary tuberculosis . Leipzig 1933 (3 editions).

Web links

• Entry on Heinrich Gißel in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Literature about Heinrich Gißel in the state bibliography MV

literature

• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich: A biographical lexicon . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-5981-1775-6 , p. 162 online version
• 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. 60.