Kurt Kellner

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Kurt Kellner (born January 8, 1891 in Küllstedt , † June 4, 1972 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor and local politician ( KPD ). He was persecuted during the Nazi era . From 1945 he was head of the health department in Würzburg.

Life

Kurt Kellner was born in Küllstedt (Thuringia) in 1891. He studied medicine in Würzburg, Halle and Kiel, received his doctorate, worked in Dresden as a senior physician at the Johannstadt Hospital and during the First World War he was a troop doctor. Since 1924 he practiced in Würzburg as a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine. In 1932 he joined the KPD and worked as a courier. The National Socialists imprisoned him several times in the Dachau concentration camp because of his political convictions and active resistance . He told Heiner Freudenberger that he would never bow to the Nazis. During the Nazi era, Kellner helped hide the " gypsy child " Rita Winterstein. As a “gypsy twin” there was a risk of racial biological experiments. Her twin sister died a few weeks after the birth in the Würzburg University Clinic, where they were admitted by order of the police. A later expert opinion assumes such experiments are highly likely, since the twin sister wore a head bandage shortly before death. Nevertheless, he was still able to practice in Würzburg towards the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Kellner was the head of the State Health Office in Würzburg and a consultant for the health system in the city of Würzburg. The American military government transferred the responsibility for the denazification of all Würzburg doctors to waiters. In addition to this activity as a government councilor, he was 2nd chairman of the Mainfranken district association of the Bavarian Medical Association.

Kellner was one of three KPD representatives in the first democratically elected Würzburg city council and received a seat again in the following three elections in 1948, 1952 and 1956. In 1949 and 1953 he ran for a Bundestag mandate in constituency 235 and via the Bavarian state list. As a result of the ban by the KPD in 1956, Kellner lost his seat on the Würzburg city council.

He worked as a doctor in Würzburg until 1971, where he died the following year. On his 75th birthday in 1966, the local daily Main-Post paid tribute to him for having performed operations on the brain at an early stage, including removing tumors. This has given him national recognition. Mayor Helmuth Zimmerer is quoted there as follows: “Regardless of the political difference of opinion, he was valued in the city council for his helpfulness and his understanding of the concerns of the citizens.” In the obituary, the local newspaper wrote in 1972: “As a doctor and a person he enjoyed the Population of great popularity. He treated many less well-off sick people free of charge. ”He was allowed to run again for the 1972 city council elections, but died a few days before the election.

literature

  • Dieter W. Rockenmaier: Black on white: Local history in the mirror of Lower Franconian newspapers: Main-Post, Schweinfurter Tagblatt, Volksblatt, Main-Echo. Mainpresse Richter, 1980, p. 32.
  • Dieter W. Rockenmaier: The Third Reich and Würzburg: Attempt to take stock. Mainpresse Richter, 1983, p. 38.
  • Harold Marcuse: Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001. Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-55204-4 , p. 469.
  • Roland Flade: A Sinti family in Würzburg: death of a twin baby. In: Main-Post. April 15, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heart attack shortly before the election. In: Main-Post. June 10, 1972.
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Waiter 75 years old. In: Main-Post. January 8, 1966.
  3. ↑ City Archives of the City of Würzburg, registration form 1928.
  4. ↑ Hans Holt, Richard Bayer, Helmut Lüders: The Freemasons, the communist uprising does not take place, how German is the German social democracy. Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag eK, 2004, ISBN 3-938164-00-X , p. 128.
  5. ^ Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, NARA Register 101, p. 82f.
  6. ↑ Šerāgā Har-Gîl: The beautiful breast of the neighbor: Stories from Israel. Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3444-9 , p. 89.
  7. ↑ Reiner Frank: Child psychiatric reports on Rita Prigmore. Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Munich, January 20, 1987. (Private possession Rita Prigmore)
  8. ↑ Roland Flade: The same eyes, the same soul. Theresia Winterstein and the persecution of a Würzburg Sinti family in the Third Reich. Ed .: Ulrich Wagner. Ferdinand Schönigh, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87717-796-9 , pp. 100 .
  9. ^ Gertrud Schmidt: March 16, 1945: A bullet crashes into the sickroom. In: Main-Post. March 15, 2009.
  10. ↑ Roland Flade: On the hunt for Nazi perpetrators. In: Main-Post. December 28, 2006.
  11. ↑ I have the whip. In: Der Spiegel . August 10, 1950.
  12. ↑ Information provided by the State Medical Association. In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt , Issue 14, July 1948, p. 78.
  13. ^ Karl-Georg Rötter: First choice after the Nazi dictatorship. In: Main-Post. May 25, 2016.
  14. ↑ cf. also: Unity of action won: SPD and KPD comrades carried out joint election campaigns. In: New Germany . October 13, 1954.
  15. ^ MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties eV, Berlin 2007, p. 599.
  16. ↑ Determination of the unconstitutionality of the law amending the state election law, the district election law and the municipal election law of July 15, 1957 (removal from office GVBl, p. 160). Bavarian Main State Archives, archival signature BayHStA, StK 11167.
  17. ↑ Gregor Schirmer: "Yes, I am ready for it": a flashback. Verlag am Park, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89793-315-6 , p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Waiter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and local politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Küllstedt
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1972
Place of death Wurzburg