Hermann Vellguth

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Hermann Hans Vellguth (born February 4, 1906 in Kirchtimke ; † after 1958) was a German medic and " racial hygienist ".

Life

Hermann Vellguth, son of the doctor Leopold Vellguth , passed the Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Meldorf . He then studied from 1924 medicine at the universities of Marburg , Freiburg , Munster and Kiel . After the state examination, he did a medical internship in the pathological anatomy department of the University of Leipzig . He received his license to practice medicine in 1930 . In the same year he received his doctorate in Leipzig. med. In the following years Vellguth worked at several clinics, including a. at a surgical clinic in Dresden.

Even before power was handed over to the National Socialists , Vellguth joined the NSDAP at the same time as his father in February 1932 and the SS a few months later . As a member of the SD , he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1944 .

From June 1933 to January 1936, Vellguth headed the “Hereditary and Racial Care” department at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. In addition, from 1934 to 1935 he was Gauamtsleiter of the Racial Political Office of the NSDAP in Saxony. Vellguth was also a medical assessor at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court in Dresden. At the beginning of 1936 he was accepted into the medical department of the Berlin police headquarters . From January 1937 he was a medical officer at the health department in Preussisch Holland and from there in April 1937 he moved to the Reich Ministry of the Interior , where he was medical advisor for "genetic and racial care".

After the annexation of Austria , Vellguth worked as a consultant from December 1938 as part of the reorganization of the health system in Vienna . From February 1940 he took over as director of the Vienna Main Health Office, from 1941 headed the local race politics office of the NSDAP and became a medical assessor at the Vienna Higher Hereditary Health Court. Vellguth also worked on the draft of the euthanasia law that had not come into force. At the beginning of 1943 Vellguth was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1944 he became an American prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947.

He later practiced as a general practitioner in Hennstedt in the Dithmarschen district .

Fonts

  • On the pathology of pulmonary insufficiency , Naumburg, from: Contributions z. pathol. Anatomy to general pathology. Vol. 86, H. 3. 1931 (also Leipzig, Med. Diss.)
  • People and Race : [Exhibition d. German Hygiene Museum, Dresden], Deutscher Verlag f. Volkswohlfahrt, Dresden 1934, (collaboration).
  • Blood and Race : [traveling exhibition d. German Hygiene Museum, Dresden], Dresden: Dt. Hygiene Museum 1936.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .
  • Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Akademie Verlag, Edition Bildung und Wissenschaft Volume 10, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004094-3, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Rassenhygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 315.
  2. ↑ a b c d Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 24f.
  3. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 482
  4. ↑ Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 , Munich 2003, p. 109.
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 638.
personal data
SURNAME Vellguth, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vellguth, Hermann Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and "racial hygienist"
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchtimke
DATE OF DEATH after 1958