Heinrich Kunstmann (politician)

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Heinrich K. Kunstmann (born December 9, 1900 in Kirchfarrnbach ; † March 2, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German internist and right-wing radical politician ( NSDAP , German Reich Party , German Freedom Party) .

Life

During the First World War , Kunstmann served in the army from June to December 1918. In 1919 he belonged to the Freikorps Würzburg and the Freikorps Epp , from 1920/21 he was a member of the Escherich (Orgesch) organization. From 1919-1924 graduated Kunstmann a degree in medicine and a doctorate in 1927 at the University of Wuerzburg to Dr. med. He then worked until 1934 as a research assistant at the Medical University Clinic in Heidelberg. At the end of February 1934, Kunstmann was temporarily entrusted with the management of the junior teachers at the Baden universities . In May 1934 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg .

From 1930 Kunstmann was a member of the NSDAP and also belonged to the NS-Ärztebund and, after its founding, also to the NS-Dozentbund . In the SA he reached the rank of SA medical standard leader. Promoted to senior medical officer, Kunstmann was medical director at the municipal hospital in Pforzheim from summer 1934 to 1939 . The National Socialist Kunstmann was involved in the Confessing Church and was chairman of the State Brotherhood Council of the Confessing Church in Württemberg until 1941 . The Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann brought Kunstmann to Hamburg in 1939 with the intention of holding a new professorship for naturopathic medicine at the University of Hamburg . However, this project failed due to resistance from the medical faculty of the University of Hamburg and for financial reasons. Instead, he took over the management of a hospital in Hamburg-Friedrichsberg in 1939 in order to establish a facility for naturopathic treatments ( Gerhard Wagner Hospital ). From June 1939 he was a member of the advisory board of the Society for Natural Living and Healing . He also published the medical journal Hippokrates, a weekly for new German medicine .

After the end of the Second World War , Kunstmann was dismissed from office and interned by the British occupying forces. The Nazi filmmaker Fritz Hippler later characterized Kunstmann as follows: "Ancient Nazi [...] In the internment camp I saw him again, unbroken, biblical and anti-Jewish". From 1946 he was chief physician at the Amalie Sieveking Hospital in Hamburg and developed into one of the most active right-wing radical politicians of the post-war period. He eventually became director of the Rautenberg Hospital in Hamburg. As a nurse working for him Ingeborg Doenitz, the wife of former Admiral 's Karl Doenitz .

From 1951 he belonged to the gentlemen's club in Hamburg, which was initiated by Gustav Adolf Scheel , who was formerly a high-ranking Nazi functionary and now under Kunstmann as an assistant doctor . In the men's club , which was closely connected to the Naumann district , old Nazis gathered and met for discussion groups. Kunstmann became a member of the German Reich Party (DRP), for which he ran unsuccessfully on the Hamburg state list for the federal elections in 1953, 1957 and 1961. From 1955 he held several board positions in their Hamburg association and at federal level. From 1960 to 1961 he took over the national chairmanship of the DRP. After a failed re-election, his successor was Adolf von Thadden . Due to differences within the party, Kunstmann resigned from the DRP and co-founded the German Freedom Party (DFP) in 1962 , which he also chaired. The DFP was later involved in the establishment of the Action Group for Independent Germans .

Kunstmann finally practiced in Hamburg as a resident physician for naturopathy on Steindamm . He was a member of the Evangelical Synod in Hamburg.

literature

  • 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. 105.
  • Beate Baldow: episode or danger? The Naumann Affair , Diss. Phil. FU Berlin 2012. Full text of the dissertation as PDF online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth and dates of life according to: Kunstmann, Heinrich, Prof. Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 698 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]). and place of death as well as dates of life according to Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353.
  2. ↑ a b 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. 105.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast (ed.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7 , p. 34
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353.
  5. ↑ a b Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980. Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag 1984, Volume I, p. 1131.
  6. ↑ Michael Grüttner: University policy between Gau and Reich. In: Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue. Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. Munich 2007, p. 185.
  7. ^ Fritz Hippler on the internship with Kunstmann. Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353
  8. ↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann Affair , Diss. Phil. FU Berlin 2012, p. 320
  9. ↑ DIED: INGEBORG DÖNITZ . In: Der Spiegel . tape May 19 , 1962 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 11, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann Affair , Diss. Phil. FU Berlin 2012, p. 88f.
  11. ↑ Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980. Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag 1984, Volume I, p. 312.
  12. ↑ parties. DRP. Whistles at the forest crater. In: Der Spiegel . Edition 30/1960 of July 20, 1960, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Kunstmann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunstmann, Heinrich K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and right-wing radical politician (NSDAP, DRP, German Freedom Party)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchfarrnbach
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1964
Place of death Hamburg