Horst-Günther Krainick
Horst-Günther Krainick (born November 28, 1908 in Berlin ; † March 1968 near Huế , Vietnam ) was a German doctor and university professor.
Life
In 1961, Horst-Günther Krainick went to the recently founded medical faculty of the University of the South Vietnamese city of Huế as head of an educational aid program of the German federal government . In the first semester of 1961, 46 students and two female students registered. In addition to Krainick, Dr. Erich Wulff , Dr. Ruprecht Zwirner and Dr. Kurt Weil. The laboratories were expanded with the support of the Freiburg University. The establishment of the faculty was the Federal Republic of Germany's first development aid project in what was then South Vietnam, initially organized by the Federal Foreign Office - the BMZ was later founded.
During the Tet offensive of the Viet Cong and the conquest of the city, Krainick was kidnapped around February 5, 1968 together with Raimund Discher , the doctor Alois Alteköster and his wife Elisabeth Krainick. All efforts, including those of Caritas President Georg Hüssler , to help the missing people were unsuccessful. On April 3, 1968, the German embassy in Saigon announced that the bodies of the four Germans had been found in a mass grave. Shots in the neck and the head were given as the cause of death. On April 18, 1968, the Krainick couple were buried in Freiburg. Their fate is set out in several scientific books on the history of the Tet Offensive.
Aftermath
The medical faculty is now an independent medical-pharmacological university with 12,600 students - integrated into the university network in Huế. The commitment of the Freiburg doctors has proven to be sustainable.
See also: Hué massacre
Honors
- 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. (The medal was awarded posthumously - in response to the murder - and presented to relatives at the funeral service.)
literature
- Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961–1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011
- Nicolaus Schmidt , Viet Duc - German-Vietnamese biographies as a mirror of history , Bielefeld 2017 ISBN 978-3-7356-0484-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011
- ↑ Nicolaus Schmidt, Viet Duc - German-Vietnamese Biographies as a Mirror of History, Bielefeld 2017, p. 93f.
- ^ Nicolaus Schmidt, Viet Duc - German-Vietnamese biographies as a mirror of history, Bielefeld 2017, p. 97
- ↑ Simon Reuter: The Vietnam Mission of the Medical Faculty Freiburg (1961 - 1968) - Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2011, p. 164
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krainick, Horst-Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | around March 20, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hué , Vietnam |