Kurt Gutzeit

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Kurt Gutzeit in June 1944

Robert Julius Kurt Gutzeit (born June 2, 1893 in Berlin ; † October 28, 1957 in Bad Wildungen ) was a leading German internist at the time of National Socialism and a professor at the University of Breslau .

Live and act

Gutzeit worked as a private lecturer in internal medicine and completed his habilitation in 1923 at the University of Jena . In 1926 he moved to the University of Breslau as a private lecturer , where he was appointed associate professor. Gutzeit was considered a proven gastrointestinal specialist whose main research areas were infectious and liver diseases as well as gastroscopy . Furthermore, Gutzeit, who also published scientifically, dealt with radiology, neural pathology, physical therapy , dietetics , metabolism of iodine , internal secretion and blood diseases. From May 1933 he worked as a department director at Berlin's Virchow Hospital and in October 1934 he moved to the University of Breslau, where he was appointed professor of internal medicine. He joined the SS in 1933, where he achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer by 1939. He joined the NSDAP in 1937, and he also belonged to the NS-Dozentbund (NSDDB). Gutzeit denounced the rector of the University of Breslau, Martin Staemmler , because he was acquainted with the surgeon Karl Heinrich Bauer , who had been married to a " quarter Jew " since 1937 .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Gutzeit worked as a consultant internist at the Army Sanitary Inspector and headed the department at the Military Medical Academy. In addition, he was director of the Wroclaw Medical Clinic. On May 16, 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross with Swords as a colonel physician or, from 1944, general physician in the reserve . He was a member of the scientific advisory board of Karl Brandt , the authorized representative for health care . He took the view that so-called "inferior" Wehrmacht members should be sent to a concentration camp. Gutzeit was one of a group of doctors, which also included Eugen Haagen and Arnold Dohmen , who dealt with hepatitis research. There Gutzeit was also involved in coordinating pseudomedical infection experiments with hepatitis , which led to liver damage in the test subjects. At his suggestion, Gutzeit's assistant Hans Voegt undertook “attempts at transferring from person to person”, the results of which appeared in the Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift . On August 23, 1944, Gutzeit said the following about the human experiments:

“In Giessen I once again tried - I don't know how many times - to shake Dohmen out of his animal experimentation lethargy so that we can finally come to the final clarification. Funny how difficult the step from animal to human is, but ultimately the latter is the main thing. "

After the end of the war

Gutzeit, who was in detention from 1945 to 1948, was a witness at the Nuremberg doctors' trial , but was not charged himself. From 1949 he headed the Herzoghöhe sanatorium in Bayreuth and in 1957 became director of the newly opened Fürstenhof clinic in Bad Wildungen . Before he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Marburg , Gutzeit died in October 1957 of a heart attack in a Bad Wildung hospital. In 1954 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts (selection)

  • About gastroenteritis. Inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and its sequelae. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag , Munich.
  • with Heinrich Teitge : Die Gastoskopie 2nd , supplemented edition Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1954.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kurt Gutzeit in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 212.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Peter: The Nuremberg Medical Trial as reflected in its processing based on the three document collections of Alexander Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke. Münster 1994, p. 171, ISBN 3-89473-915-0
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 260.
  5. ^ Letter from Kurt Gutzeit to his colleague, Wilhelm Fähndrich, dated August 23, 1944, quoted in: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 262.
  6. ↑ Michael Sachs (ed.): Historical medical dictionary for Silesia. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon of Silesian doctors and surgeons (surgeons). , Volume 2 (D-G), Wunstorf 1999, p. 367
  7. ↑ Alexander Mitscherlich, Fred Mielke: Medicine without humanity: Documents of the Nürnberger Ärzteprozesses , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 165f.
  8. ↑ Von deutschem Ruhm , in: Die Zeit , issue 40 from September 25, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Good time, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutzeit, Robert Julius Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and SS doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1957
Place of death Bad Wildungen