Heinrich Lottig

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Heinrich Lottig (born January 20, 1900 in Hamburg , † May 21, 1941 in Crete ) was a German neurologist , aviation physician and professor.

Life

Born as the son of the social democratic reform pedagogue William Lottig , he initially wanted to become a teacher himself, but then studied medicine in Hamburg from 1920 until the state examination in 1925. At the anatomical institute he was an assistant until 1926 and began twin research . After a stopover in Heidelberg, he was an assistant at Max Nonne in Hamburg-Eppendorf from 1928 . In 1930 he completed his habilitation with a twin study. In 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He worked as a private lecturer in neurology and at the Hamburg Institute for Aviation Medicine , where he carried out tests on military fitness to fly. Due to his contact with Ludwig Klages , he also dealt with depth psychology and graphology .

From 1934 to 1937 Lottig was the senior physician in charge of the Hamburg youth welfare office . In this function he worked as an appraiser and expert before the Hamburg juvenile court . Lottig, for example, examined 366 orphans in the former Friedrichsberg State Hospital in terms of genetic biology, diagnosing more than half of them as "inferior", "which posed a threat to the national community". In 1937 Lottig joined the NSDAP . In the same year, the medical faculty in Hamburg refused to award Lottig the title of professor because his scientific achievements did not seem sufficient. Lottig then went to Berlin, where in August 1938 he was appointed as a group leader to head the medical office in the Nazi Fliegerkorps . In 1939 he was appointed as a non-official extraordinary professor at Berlin University. In 1940 Lottig volunteered for a paratrooper regiment . He fell over Crete while parachuting in 1941.

Fonts

  • Hamburg twin studies: anthropological and characterological investigations on monozygotic and dizygotic twins , 1931

literature

  • Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the "Third Reich". Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989.
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich, Who Was What Before and After 1945? , Frankfurt am M. 2003, p. 381
  • Viktor Harsch: The Institute for Aviation Medicine in Hamburg-Eppendorf (1927-1945) , 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the "Third Reich". Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989, p. 111 ff.