Helmut Kluck

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Helmut Adalbert Kluck (also Hellmuth ; born September 25, 1894 in Danzig , West Prussia province , † March 12, 1967 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German physician and in the 1930s Senator for Public Health of the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Kluck completed a degree in medicine and received his license to practice medicine after completing his studies in 1920 . He then worked as an assistant doctor in the internal department of the Danzig City Hospital under the direction of Adolf Wallenberg and wrote his dissertation "Apoplectiform disease in the medial lower bridge area (bleeding from a right art. Mediana pontis inferior?)" With him In 1921 with Oskar Minkowski at the University of Breslau as Dr. med. PhD . From 1922 he worked as a district assistant doctor, then as a district doctor and finally as a port doctor.

Initially a member of the Center Party , he was a member of the NSDAP from November 1931 ( membership number 719.865). Furthermore, he joined the NS-Ärztebund and in 1932 the SS (SS-No. 46.084), in which he rose to SS-Standartenführer in mid-September 1935 . From 1933 Kluck was in the Senate Rauschning and in the Senate Greiser in the public health of the Free City of Danzig. After founding the State Academy of Medicine in Gdansk in April 1935, he became its first rector. Kluck gave lectures there on social medicine , hereditary diseases and race care. He was also district chairman and district manager for public health in Gdansk. In his hometown he was President of the Red Cross . Kluck was removed from office in 1936 and expelled from the party the following year. He then emigrated to Brazil , where he worked for pharmaceutical companies. He returned in 1939 and worked for Schering AG . During the Second World War he had his residence in Blankenfelde and was u. a. Board member of Alpinen Chemischen AG in Kufstein .

After the war ended, Kluck practiced as a general practitioner in Bad Eilsen . In Lower Saxony he was accepted into the civil service in 1949 and from June 1954 was head of the health department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs . From 1956 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the International Society for Research into Civilization Diseases and Vital Substances .

literature

  • Winfried Süss: The “people's body” in war. Health policy, health conditions and the murder of the sick in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56719-5 (short biography).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated edition, 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 475.
  2. ↑ a b Professor Dr. Hellmuth A. Kluck †. In: Vital substances, diseases of civilization. Vol. 12 (1967), p. 85.
  3. ↑ Catalog card of the dissertation , website of the University Library Basel , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Winfried Süß: The “People's Body” in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, p. 470.
  5. ↑ a b SS seniority list (Standartenführer)
  6. ↑ Bertold Spuler : Regents and Governments of the World. Volume 3: Modern Times, 1492-1918. 2nd Edition. AG Ploetz, p. 132 ( snippet view on Google Books ).
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Rascher, Renate Wittern-Sterzel: History of the University Children's Hospital Erlangen. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2005, p. 227.
  8. ^ Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr . : Yearbook. Volume 21, 1971, p. 38.
  9. ↑ Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich. Special edition as an unchanged reprint [of the 3rd edition]. Arndt, Kiel 2000, p. 237.
  10. ^ Rudolf Hanel: Compass. Financial yearbook. Volume 7, Compassverlag, 1943, p. 267.
  11. ↑ The Public Health Service. Volumes 15-16, 1954, p. 263.
personal data
SURNAME Kluck, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kluck, Helmut Adalbert (full name); Kluck, Hellmuth Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, SS leader and Senator for Public Health of the Free City of Danzig (1933–1939)
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdansk , West Prussia Province
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1967
Place of death Bad Pyrmont