Karl Pieper

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Karl Franz Johannes Pieper (born June 10, 1886 in Schwedt an der Oder ; † January 22, 1951 in Munich ?) Was a German dentist and high functionary under National Socialism .

Life

Karl Pieper studied dentistry from 1906 to 1909 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After an assistantship, he worked as a senior physician from 1911 to 1929 , where he also headed the newly established area of ​​dental orthopedics. In 1921, Pieper obtained his doctorate. med. dent. Several attempts to do his habilitation failed, particularly because he had no other scientific publications to show besides his dissertation . His activities in the framework of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) also made him appear unacceptable in large circles of the faculty. Pieper did not become adjunct professor until 1929 , after which he settled in private practice. After the National Socialists seized power , he was appointed associate professor (Extraordinariaus) and head of the orthodontic department in Munich in 1934 . In 1937 Pieper received a certificate of appointment as full professor, personally signed by Adolf Hitler . A “political” appointment replaced scientific achievements. In 1938 he also became head of the conservation department at the University Dental Clinic in Munich.

Career in the time of National Socialism

In 1922 he was one of the first NSDAP members (No. 453) and took part in the " Hitler putsch " in Munich the following year as a member of the Freikorps Epp and the German Combat League, Munich . In 1933 he received both the so-called Blood Order (No. 262) - an award given by Hitler to “ old fighters ” - and the NSDAP's Golden Party Badge (No. 453). He held the following offices:

  • Liaison between the Reich Association of Dentists in Germany and the NSDAP
  • 1934 Member of the four-member “Small Fuhrer Council”, which Ernst Stuck, the National Socialist “Reich Dentist Leader”, “had been given” for advice purposes.
  • University advisor for dentistry in the staff Deputy of the Führer ,
  • Reichsamtsleiter of the NSDAP
  • 1933 member of the Sturmabteilung (SA)
  • 1933 Appointment as “liaison man and political confidante of the dental profession to the National Socialist German Medical Association and to the NSDAP” by the “Reichsärzteführer” Gerhard Wagner
  • 1935 SA- Sanitätsobersturmführer
  • From 1936 consultant for dentistry in the National Socialist German Lecturer Association
  • From 1938 dental clerk in the Reich leadership of the National Socialist German Medical Association
  • 1939 Decoration of Honor of the German Red Cross, first class
  • 1944 Scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt

The task of the "Reichsdozentenführer" was to "purge" the universities, to exert National Socialist political influence on the appointment policy in dentistry and to thwart the careers of "unpleasant" dental university teachers, such as that of Gustav Korkhaus , a student of Alfred Kantorowicz .

In May 1945, Karl Pieper was arrested by American troops. On April 15, 1946, Pieper was removed from his position as a full professor on the instructions of the military government. In June 1947 he was released from Moosburg internment camp after suffering a heart attack . A denazification process followed , in which he was classified as a “fellow traveler” (group IV) on March 17, 1949 and thus largely “rehabilitated”. The Pieper case is an example of the fact that over the years the judiciary courts increasingly turned into "follower factories" in which the activists of the Third Reich issued each other so-called Persilscheine . Pieper died on January 22, 1951 of complications from a stroke .

Publications

  • Karl Pieper: On a case of extensive loss of mucous membrane in the oral cavity as a result of a shot in the jaw , dissertation. Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg im Breisgau (1921)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hundsdorfer: Life and work of Prof. Dr. Karl Pieper , dissertation. Medical Faculty, University of Munich (1996)
  2. ↑ Blood Order , Infantry Aassalut Bag. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Federal Archives R 9361-III / 568992
  4. ↑ Federal Archives Berlin R 9361-III / 568992
  5. ↑ GStA PK I. HA Rep. 76 Va Sect. 3 Tit. IV No. 39, Bd. 16
  6. ↑ Federal Archives Berlin 9361 R-III / 568,992; Bundesarchiv Berlin R 9361-VIII / 1560054 (P); GStA PK I. HA Rep. 76 Va Sect. 3 Tit. IV No. 39, Vol. 16
  7. ↑ Christoph Benz, Ernst Hundsdorfer: Blood Order Bearer Karl Pieper, his rise and fall , Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen 1996, Volume 86, pp. 76-78
  8. ^ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" . De Gruyter, February 20, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-84020-9 , pp. 313-315.
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieper, Karl Franz Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and high official under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwedt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1951
Place of death unsure: Munich