Karl Pesch
Karl Ludwig Pesch (born April 30, 1889 in Cologne , † May 16, 1941 in Prague ) was a German physician , university professor and racial and social hygienist .
Life
Pesch completed a medical degree at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Munich. He took part in the First World War as a volunteer on the Western Front . In 1919 he was at the University of Greifswald Dr. med. PhD . He was assistant and later senior physician at the hygiene institute of the University of Cologne , where he qualified as a professor in 1922 for hygiene and bacteriology and became associate professor in 1930.
From 1932 to 1938 he was also director of the Museum of Public Hygiene and was temporarily director of the disinfection centers in Cologne. In the context of racial hygiene , he gave a lecture on “Hereditary diseases as a ethnic danger” and Judaism . In May 1934 he proposed the establishment of an institute for genetic research and in 1937 a twin research center . From 1935 he headed the Cologne branch of the German Society for Racial Hygiene . In 1938 he moved to the Berlin Hygiene Institute. From 1940 he held the chair for hygiene with a focus on hereditary diseases at the University of Prague , which he held until his death. Curt Sonnenschein followed him to the professorship in Prague .
Pesch joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 and was also a member of other NS organizations, including a. of the NS-Ärztebund and the NS-Dozentbund .
The Karl Pesch Foundation was set up in 1971 to promote hygiene research at the University of Cologne .
literature
- Petr Svobodný: Wanderings and Changes: The Medical Faculty of the German University in Prague and its relations with German and Austrian universities in the years 1882–1945 . In: Walter Pape (Ed.): Ten years of university partnership. Univerzita Karlova v Praze - University of Cologne. Colloquium on university and specialist history , electronic series of the University and City Library Cologne, Volume 3, University and City Library Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-931596-57-6 .
- Michal Šimůnek: A new subject. Hereditary and racial hygiene at the Medical Faculty of the German Charles University in Prague 1939–1945 . In: Antonín Kostlán (ed.), Science in the Bohemian Lands 1939–1945 (= Studies in History of Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 9). Praha: KLP, 2004, pp. 190-317, ISBN 80-86791-20-3 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Petr Svobodný: Wanderings and Changes: The Medical Faculty of the German University in Prague and its relationships with German and Austrian universities in the years 1882–1945 . In: Walter Pape (Ed.): Ten years of university partnership. Univerzita Karlova v Praze - University of Cologne. Colloquium on university and specialist history , Cologne 2011, p. 24f.
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 454
- ↑ Michal Šimůnek: A new subject. Hereditary and racial hygiene at the Medical Faculty of the German Charles University in Prague 1939-1945 . In: Antonín Kostlán (ed.): Science in the Bohemian Lands 1939-1945 . KLP, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-86791-20-3 , p. 190–316, here p. 201 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pesch, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pesch, Karl Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicians, university teachers and racial and social hygienists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1941 |
| Place of death | Prague |