Heinz Lord

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Heinz Lord (born March 21, 1917 in Hamburg , † February 4, 1961 in Chicago ) was a German surgeon and resistance fighter. During the time of National Socialism , he participated with the White Rose in Hamburg in the resistance against the Nazi regime . In 1960 he was appointed General Secretary of the World Medical Association .

Life

Lord was born as a Peruvian citizen in Hamburg. He passed his Abitur in 1936 at the Johanneum School of Academics. He studied medicine in Hamburg , Zurich and Berlin and graduated in 1942 with the state examination in Berlin. Lord rejected National Socialism and joined the candidates of humanity as a young assistant doctor in the surgical department at Eppendorf University Hospital (UKE) . His keen interest was also in jazz and he was close to the Hamburg swing youth .

In July 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison. There was no charge against him, on June 6, 1944, the delivery was carried out as a protective custody in the Neuengamme concentration camp . From there he was brought to the ship Cap Arcona in April 1945 and was one of the few survivors after the bombing of this floating concentration camp.

After the war he worked at the hospital in Hamburg-Barmbek and specialized in surgery and urology . In 1954 he emigrated to the USA , where he was licensed as a surgeon in 1957. Since 1949 he has been actively involved in the international organization of medicine and was a member of the Marburger Bund . In December 1960 he was appointed General Secretary of the World Medical Association .

On February 3, 1961, he suffered a heart attack during a convention and died the next morning in a Chicago hospital. He contracted the chronic heart disease while in a concentration camp.

literature

  • Hendrik van den Bussche : The Hamburg University Medicine under National Socialism , here: Angela Bottin and Hendrik van den Bussche: 7.3 Opposition to the regime and persecution in medical and student circles in Eppendorf , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin Hamburg, 2014, p. 367 ff., ISBN 978- 3-496-02870-3
  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , second edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7
  • Ursel Hochmuth : Candidates of Humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of Hans Leipelt's 50th birthday ; Editor: Association of the anti-fascists and persecuted persons of the Nazi regime Hamburg eV, Hamburg 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael H. Kater : The impact of American popular culture , in: Jonathan Huener, Francis R. Nicosia : The arts in Nazi Germany: continuity, conformity, change . Berghahn Books, 2006 ISBN 978-1-84545-209-4 , p. 49; available as google book , accessed on February 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth, Gertrud Meyer: Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933-1945 , p. 402 ff.
  3. ↑ Obituaries . In: Canadian Medical Journal , March 11, 1961, Volume 84, p. 565. PMC 1939322 (free full text)
  4. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Hamburg's White Rose. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 27, 2011, p. 22; available online , accessed on February 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lord, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1961
Place of death Chicago