Hermann Brauneck

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Hermann Max-Gustav Brauneck (born December 19, 1894 in Sulzbach / Saar , † July 27, 1942 in Kerch ) was a German surgeon and SA leader.

biography

education and profession

After completing his school career, Brauneck did military service in the German Army from 1913 and, as a soldier in the Imperial Navy, last took part in the First World War with the rank of first lieutenant . He then studied medicine and later did his doctorate in medicine . med. From 1920 to 1930 Brauneck worked as an assistant doctor in Bremen and received his license to practice medicine in 1922 . Brauneck then worked as a resident surgeon until 1933.

time of the nationalsocialism

Brauneck had been a member of the NSDAP since 1930 and of the SA in 1931 . From 1933 Brauneck officiated as state commissioner for the Bremen health system and was president of the authority for the health system in Bremen from October 1933 to 1935. In addition, he headed the racial political office of the party in the Weser-Ems Gau from 1933 , became a Gauobmann in the Nazi Medical Association in 1934 and was a judge at the Hereditary Health Court . Brauneck was appointed President of the German Red Cross , State Men's Association Oldenburg-Bremen , by DRK President Carl Eduard (Saxony-Coburg and Gotha) in the summer of 1934 . From 1935 to 1936 he was head of the Gauamt für Volksgesundheit (Gau Office for Public Health) and then Head of the Central Office for Public Health (HAVG). In February 1936 Brauneck moved to the Ministerialrat, promoted to the Reich Ministry of the Interior . From 1937 Brauneck worked full-time for the SA and became head of the medical main office of the highest SA leadership . In Berlin he also took over the deputy chairmanship of the Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Reich Medical Association . In April 1938, Brauneck was unsuccessfully proposed to enter the insignificant German Reichstag . During the Nazi party rallies in Nuremberg, Brauneck was responsible for the health care of the "march participants". In the SA Brauneck rose in November 1937 to SA-Obergruppenführer (S).

After the beginning of the Second World War , Brauneck did military service until 1940. From 1942 Brauneck was inspector of the SA medical services. Brauneck took part in the German-Soviet War as chief medical officer in the Navy . On July 27, 1942, Brauneck died in Kerch during combat operations. Brauneck is buried on the Sevastopol-Gontscharnoje war cemetery.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1942. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • 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 Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56719-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 , Munich 2003, p. 461
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 72f.
  3. ^ Sheets of the German Red Cross, 13th year 1934, issue 2, page 272
  4. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - Who was what in the Third Reich , p. 76
  5. ↑ Kösliner Zeitung, edition 7/1942, No. 209: SA-Obergruppenführer Brauneck fallen consultant for the SA medical services . Message from Berlin. July 31, 1942 (online)
  6. ↑ Online database at www.volksbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Brauneck, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauneck, Hermann Max-Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach / Saar
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1942
Place of death Kerch