Karl Heinz Behrens

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Karl Heinz Behrens , also Carl Heinz Behrens , (born September 23, 1889 in Celle ; † August 1940 ) was a German medical professional and a National Socialist functionary. He was district chairman of the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB) for the district of Hessen-Nassau .

Life

After finishing school, Carl Heinz Behrens did his military service . He received his doctorate as Dr. med. and joined the NSDAP in 1925 and the Sturmabteilung (SA) before 1933 . He later became district chairman of the NSDÄB for the Gau Hessen-Nassau and head of the Hesse-Nassau Medical Association , which in 1933 had raised "heritage and race care" to the most important task.

In 1936 he was appointed head of the Gauamt für Volksgesundheit (Gau Office for Public Health), at the same time he headed the Health Department of the German Labor Front and the National Socialist Public Welfare Department for Public Health Hessen-Nassau. He chose the center of his life in Frankfurt am Main . His office there was the Adolf Hitler House, but his apartment was in Zeil 63.

Karl Heinz Behrens fell with the rank of captain of the aviators in August 1940 in the Battle of Britain .

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener: Degeners Who is it? Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 88.
  • Benno Hafeneger, Marcus Velke and Lucas Frings: History of the Hessian Medical Associations 1887–1956. Autonomy, responsibility, interests , Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Ärzteblatt 2016, Karl Heinz Behrens, p. 2 f, In: laekh.de (PDF) (accessed on August 17, 2020)
  2. ↑ Hesse's Medical Association - Glorious and inglorious moments
  3. ^ Working group for research into National Socialist "euthanasia" and forced sterilization (ed.): Psychiatry in the Third Reich, focus on Hesse: Specialist conference from November 2nd to 4th, 2001 in Nassau-Schänen (reports of the working group) . Klemm & Oelschläger, 2002, p. 123.
  4. ↑ Winfried Süß: The “People's Body” in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 (= Studies on Contemporary History, Volume 65). 2009, p. 460.
  5. ^ National Socialist Yearbook , Verlag Franz Eher Successor, 1939, p. 263.
  6. ^ Hessischer Ärztetag 2016, obituary by Karl Heinz Behrens, p. 6, In: laekh.de (PDF) (accessed on August 17, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behrens, Carl Heinz; Behrens, Johann Heinrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH August 1940