Helmuth Reinwein

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Helmuth Reinwein at a ceremony on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1965)

Helmuth Heinrich Paul Ludwig August Reinwein (born February 22, 1895 in Dudendorf , † November 17, 1966 in Gauting ) was a German internist and university professor .

Life

Helmuth Reinwein was the son of the farmer Helmuth Reinwein and his wife Emma, ​​nee Levermann. After graduating from high school in Rostock, he began studying medicine at the University of Rostock in the summer semester of 1914 , which he interrupted because of military service after the outbreak of the First World War . He was taken prisoner by Russia. After his release from captivity, he resumed his medical studies and attended the universities of Rostock, Königsberg and Würzburg . After completing his studies, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked for about a year as a research assistant at the Universities of Rostock, Heidelberg and Würzburg. He completed his habilitation in Würzburg in 1927, where he then worked as a private lecturer and from 1931 as a part-time associate professor. From 1934 he worked briefly as chief physician in the internal department of the Henriettenstift in Hanover . In the same year he was appointed to the chair for internal medicine at the University of Gießen , where he was also director of the university clinic.

After the National Socialists came to power , he joined the SA in 1933 . He became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 and eventually also belonged to the NSKK and the NS-Ärztebund . Together with Hermann Rein , he researched the German Research Foundation's Höhenflug project in 1938/39 and subsequently devoted himself to other related military medicine research projects. During the Second World War , from 1941 onwards, he was employed as a consultant internist in the South-East Army Section in Romania . In April 1942 he changed to the chair of internal medicine at the University of Kiel . There he also held the position of director of the medical university clinic in Kiel.

After the end of the war, Reinwein remained in his chair and was rector of the University of Kiel in 1958/59. Reinwein was aware that the leading desk perpetrator of the T4 campaign, Werner Heyde, had gone into hiding under the pseudonym Fritz Sawade. After Reinwein reported the country team Troglodytia Kiel, who often celebrated in the neighboring house , they were sentenced to stop singing or bawling between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Reinwein remained angry about the verdict, felt he was being treated unfairly by the judiciary and therefore refused to teach. The dean of the medical faculty, who tried to appease Reinwein, learned in this context from the angry Reinwein that the judiciary was not concerned with the so-called Dr. Sawade would care. In 1959, he started the Sawade affair, as a result of which Heyde was exposed, surrendered to justice and committed suicide while in custody .

Reinwein retired in 1962 . He had been married to Elisabeth, née Hefter (1896–1988), since 1925. The couple had two children, one son was the endocrinologist Dankwart Reinwein .

Fonts (selection)

  • A new method for the refinement of tuberculosis diagnostics , Rostock University, medical dissertation 1923
  • About the causes of the increase in metabolism after protein nutrition , University of Würzburg, medical habilitation thesis 1927
  • Modern treatment of diabetes mellitus , Enke, Stuttgart 1946

Honors and offices

Portrait bust of Helmuth Reinwein in the building of the 1st Medical Clinic of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Volume 2, 1966, p. 1960
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 489f.
  3. ↑ a b Peter Zocher: Edo Osterloh - From theologians to Christian politicians. A case study on the relationship between theology and politics in the 20th century (= work on contemporary church history, Vol. 48.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-55750-1 , p. 708
  4. ↑ Erich Maletzke: SS doctor in hiding: A dispute over nighttime drinking unmasked Dr. Death. In: shz.de. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , December 15, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 24ff.
  6. ↑ Erich Maletzke: SS doctor in hiding: A dispute over nighttime drinking unmasked Dr. Death . By the editorial team of the Flensburger Tageblatt on December 15, 2013 at http://www.shz.de
  7. ↑ Klaus Mann:  Reinwein, Dankwart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 380 f. ( Digitized version ).
  8. ↑ http://www.leopoldina.org/de/lösungen/lösungen/member/6168/
personal data
SURNAME Reinwein, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinwein, Helmuth Heinrich Paul Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dudendorf
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1966
Place of death Gauting