Herbert Elbel

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Herbert Gabriel Elbel (born October 22, 1907 in St. Martin near Villach , † May 10, 1986 in Bonn ) was an Austrian-German forensic doctor and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Elbel completed medicine at the University of Innsbruck from 1926 to 1931 and received his doctorate at the end of October 1931. med. He began his internship in May 1931 at the Pathological Institute of the University of Innsbruck.

Politically, Elbel had been active early on in the Bund Oberland and the Fatherland Front . During his studies he joined the Suevia Innsbruck fraternity and was a member of the NS student union from 1927 to 1931 . Even before the party was banned , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 900.575) at the beginning of March 1932 and was dismissed from his employment with the University of Innsbruck as a party member after the NSDAP ban in Austria . Elbel soon moved to the German Reich and in October 1934 took up an assistant position at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University of Göttingen with Berthold Mueller . Together with Mueller, he moved to the University of Heidelberg where he completed his habilitation in 1937 and then became a private lecturer. After he had received German citizenship in 1936, he joined other NS organizations, such as the NSV and the NS-Ärztebund in 1937 . After the beginning of the Second World War , Elbel did temporary military service in the Wehrmacht from November 1939 to August 1943 as a senior staff doctor in the reserve and was then made indispensable.

After Mueller's appointment to the chair at the University of Königsberg , Elbel temporarily represented the vacant chair in Heidelberg in 1941/42, and from there in 1942 moved to the University of Freiburg as an associate professor . From November 1944 he was an adjunct professor for forensic medicine at the University of Bonn . After the end of the war he was professor at the University of Bonn from 1946 until his retirement in 1976.

Elbel had been married to Marie Auguste Elisabeth, née Feldmann, since 1935. The marriage had four children. In 1971 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . After the end of the war, Elbel denied his NSDAP membership as part of the denazification , as he had never received a confirmation for his registration in Innsbruck and later his admission after the membership ban was not processed or his retroactive admission to the NSDAP was rejected. Nor does he claim to have been a member of the SS since 1937 , as he was not accepted into this organization due to a lack of documents. Even if there is no final clarity on this matter, Elbel's interest in these memberships became clear.

Fonts

  • The scientific basis for the assessment of blood alcohol results , Thieme, Leipzig 1937 (plus habilitation thesis Göttingen)
  • Drunkenness and traffic accidents , Neuland, Hamburg 1954
  • About disillusionment drugs for drivers , Gilde-Verl, Alfeld / Leine 1955
  • Blood alcohol , Thieme Stuttgart 1956
  • Alcohol, traffic accidents and road deaths , Neuland, Hamburg 1958
  • Research results in forensic medicine , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1967

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , Munich 2006, p. 132
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 133
personal data
SURNAME Elbel, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elbel, Herbert Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German forensic doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Martin near Villach
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1986
Place of death Bonn