Horst Rocholl

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Horst Rocholl (born February 23, 1908 in Kassel ; † January 1, 2004 in Eberswalde ) was a German doctor, translator , author and amateur photographer.

Life

Education and profession

Horst Rocholl was born as the son of the lawyer Hermann Rocholl. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and was in 1934 with Rudolf Klapp with the dissertation on the mechanism of action of local anesthetics. Investigations on colloidal ferrocyanic copper solutions to doctorate ( Dr. med. ) PhD . In 1936 he set up a practice for surgery and obstetrics in Waldkappel . As early as 1933, under the influence of his father, he joined the NSDAP and in 1937 became its local group leader in Waldkappel. When the NSDAP later forbade him to give up the post of local group leader, he moved to Kassel - Oberzwehren shortly afterwards .

Second World War and prisoner of war

After the beginning of the war in 1939 he served as a military doctor in the Wehrmacht . He was used in the western campaign against France and then on the eastern front. At the Battle of Stalingrad , as a regimental doctor of the 24th Panzer Regiment of the 24th Panzer Division, after the surrender of the 6th Army on February 2, 1943, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

In the officers' camp (Oflag) Oranki he joined the National Committee for Free Germany and the Association of German Officers (BDO). In autumn 1943 he was sent to the Lunjowo camp and the central Antifa school in Krasnogorsk , where he met the doctor Ottmar Kohler and Arno von Lenski . There, Horst Rocholl was sentenced to 25 years in a camp by a Soviet military court in 1948 and deported to the Vorkuta labor camp . Then he was sent to the POW camp 182 in Shakhty .

In the DDR

He was released on December 22, 1953 and arrived in East Berlin on a transport train on December 30, 1953 . He brought his family to the GDR and in 1954/55 completed training as a pulmonologist at the Altlandsberg / Neuenhagen tuberculosis hospital and at the Berlin-Buch tuberculosis research institute . Horst Rocholl initially worked in Strausberg and later in Neuenhagen near Berlin as a senior physician in the local hospital and as head of a polyclinical department for lung diseases and tuberculosis (PALT). From 1956 to 1965 he worked as a district doctor and until 1970 as a district tuberculosis doctor and a district hygiene doctor. In 1954 he joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) and the National Front and was a member of the district council . From 1958 he was active in the Association of Former Stalingrad Fighters and a member of the Working Group of Former Officers (AeO). For his services to the GDR, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1962 .

Rocholl translated medical literature from the Russian language .

In its series Feldpostbriefe from Stalingrad , Deutschlandfunk cited 2002 in part 14 ( Der Abschied ) a. a. from Rocholl's post. In 2003 he worked in the award-winning documentary by Guido Knopp Stalingrad - The attack. The boiler. The downfall on ZDF as a contemporary witness . His field post letters, some of which are stored in the Federal Archives, are in 2009 under the title A Doctor in Stalingrad. Field post letters and prisoner mail from regimental doctor Horst Rocholl, 1942–1953 published in book form. Due to the extraordinary size, the many everyday details and the reflections in Rocholl's field post, the field post letters have found numerous echoes in the secondary literature. The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden opened an exhibition in Stalingrad on December 15, 2012 , which also showed exhibits by Rocholl.

Private life

Horst Rocholl had five children from two marriages. After divorcing his first wife, he was at times a single father. The very active amateur photographer Rocholl founded a photography working group in the cultural association of the Strausberg district in the 1980s. He was a founding member of the Bürgererverein Bollensdorf eV

Honors

Fonts

  • About the mechanism of action of local anesthetics. Investigations on colloidal ferrocyanic copper solutions . Diss., University of Marburg 1934.

Translations into German (and editing)

  • NA Ivanova: Protective inhibition as a method of combating pain in surgical patients . VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1956 (editing and translation from Russian).
  • IP Isotow: The epidural anesthesia in surgery, gynecology and urology . VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1955 (editing and translation from Russian).
  • Alexander Viktorowitsch Triumfow: The topical diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system . VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1956 (translation from Russian).
  • Samuel Leff, Vera Leff: From Magic to World Health . VEB Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1958 (translation from English).

literature

  • Report XX. Horst Rocholl. Department doctor, 24th Panzer Regiment, 24th Panzer Division . In: Reinhold Busch (Ed.): Stalingrad. Back from hell. 25 Stalingrad doctors report on the slow death of the 6th Army in the cauldron and in captivity (= The doctors of Stalingrad. Part 3). Volume 3/3, Wünsche, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-933345-26-4 , pp. 1165-1222 ( digitized version ).
  • Jens Ebert (Ed.): A doctor in Stalingrad: Field post letters and prisoner mail from the regimental doctor Horst Rocholl 1942–1953 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0302-7 .
  • Jürgen Egyptien (Ed.): Memory in text and images. On the portrayal of war and the Holocaust in literary and cinematic work in Germany and Poland . Academy, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005722-4 .
  • Jörg Schuster , Jochen Strobel (Ed.): Letter culture. Texts and interpretations - from Martin Luther to Thomas Bernhard . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027656-5 .
  • Jason D. Mark, Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad, pp. 433/434

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Möller: The farewell. Deutschlandfunk, December 1, 2002.
  2. ↑ Announcement in the BZ, January 21, 2003
  3. ↑ Estate of Dr. Horst Rocholls. Foundation Archives of the parties and mass organizations of the GDR at the Federal Archives Berlin (SAPMO-BARCH), NY 4554, K2
  4. ↑ Review in: Claudia Glunz, Thomas F. Schneider: War and Literature / War and Literature Vol. XIV . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, October 28, 2009, ISBN 3-86234-085-6 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann : Stalingrad, mass grave. In: Die Zeit , December 23, 2012.
  6. ↑ STALINGRAD 70 TO APRÈS Vu du IIIe Reich - Qu'on en finisse avec ce merdier! January 31, 2013.
  7. ↑ Documentation on the website of the photo club Strausberg ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotoklub-strausberg.de
  8. ↑ Honorary members of the Bürgererverein Bollensdorf eV on its website
  9. ↑ Erich Siek: Honor where honor is due. 2008
  10. ↑ New residential street Gruscheweg is by MR Dr. Named Horst Rocholl . ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuenhagen-bei-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Rocholl, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, translator and book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2004
Place of death Eberswalde