Heinrich Teitge

Heinrich Teitge (born July 16, 1900 in Bielefeld , † July 19, 1970 in Senne ) was a German doctor, at the time of National Socialism a university professor in Berlin and an SS leader.

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Teitge attended high school in Düsseldorf and ended his school career in early July 1918 with the Abitur as part of the “ Notreife ” . After that, he served as physician assistants still briefly in the German army in the First World War . He then belonged to the Schuster Freikorps Regiment . Teitge graduated from 1919 to study medicine at the universities of Bonn , Düsseldorf and Würzburg , which he completed in June 1924 with the state examination. A year later he received his doctorate. med. From 1926 he was initially employed as an assistant doctor at the Charité's first medical clinic and at the Physiological-Chemical Institute in Berlin . He was then senior physician at the Moabit Hospital from 1933 to 1936 and director at the Urbank Hospital from the beginning of November 1935 to 1945 . Teitge completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1936 with his work: The results of my gastroscopic examinations .

The NSDAP ( membership number 320080) and SS (membership. 5736) came Teitge at 1930. In the SS, Teitge achieved the rank of SS brigade leader in April 1942 . Teitge was the first SS doctor in Berlin and held the post of SS upper section doctor east.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Teitge was from 1940 senior physician at the Military Medical Academy and in July 1941 he became an associate professor in Berlin. After that, from January 20, 1943, Teitge was the last chief department head of the Main Office for Health in the German-occupied General Government , where he held the title of President from August 1943. He also headed the DRK in the GG. From 1944, Teitge also held the position of senior doctor at the Higher SS and Police Leader East Wilhelm Koppe .

After the end of the war, Teitge, as a defense witness, wrote a written testimony in June 1946 for the defendant Hermann Pook in the business and administrative office of the SS ( USA vs. Oswald Pohl et al. ) On the position and activities of SS doctors.

From 1950 Teitge was the head physician at the Protestant Hospital in Melle and from 1955 to 1960 he was director of the Paracelsus Clinic in Marl .

Fonts (selection)

• Kurt Gutzeit , Heinrich Teitge: The gastroscopy 2nd , supplemented edition Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1954.

literature

• Christian Pross, Rolf Winau (Ed.): Do not abuse. The Moabit Hospital , Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88725-109-1 .
• Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
• Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Teitge in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 954
2. ↑ Teitge, Heinrich . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 618.
4. ↑ Heinrich Teitge on dws-xip.pl
5. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims . Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 268.
6. ↑ Nuremberg Trials Project ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.