Kurt Klare

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Paul Hermann Kurt Klare (born October 10, 1885 in Bielefeld ; † July 12, 1954 there ) was a German physician, university professor and Nazi medical officer.

Life

Klare was the son of a medical council. After one year of military service, he studied medicine at the universities of Bonn, Strasbourg and Rostock from 1906 to 1911. During his studies in 1908 he fell ill with chorioretinitis - tuberculosis . He was approved in 1911 and in 1912 Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant doctor at the sanatorium for lung patients Hohenwiese of the LVA Silesia. In 1915 he moved to the Waldhof-Elgershausen Stubbe sanatorium in Sülzhagen, where he was initially senior physician. From 1916 he headed this facility and in the following year changed to the Victoria-Luise children's sanatorium in Hohenlychen. From 1918 he was director of the Prinzregent Luitpold children's sanatorium in Scheidegg for over 20 years .

Klare was a member of the DNVP from 1920 to 1922 and was a member of the NSDAP from March 1926 ( membership number 57,391). He was later awarded the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP . From 1928 he headed the doctors' group of the National Socialist Society for German Culture . In 1929 he was a founding member of the National Socialist German Medical Association , where he received membership no. 2 received.

Initially lecturer for one year, he was from 1935 honorary professor for "Tuberculosis and Constitution" at the University of Munich. From 1940 he worked as an honorary professor at the University of Münster.

Klare held various functions at the time of National Socialism . He was the representative of the Reichsärzteführer for the entire German medical press and was a member of the board of the Reich Tuberculosis Committee . From 1935 he was the literature representative of the main office for public health . He headed the main office of the Advisory Council on Public Health of the NSDAP Reich leadership. The journal Hippokrates gave clear . Magazine for practical medicine and was its editor until 1937. He also founded the magazine Ziel und Weg . For the German Medical Weekly he took over the editing of the supplement German Tuberculosis Sheet . In 1938 he was made an honorary citizen of Scheidegg. The tuberculosis specialist was finally awarded the honorary title of professor. Klare chaired the German Society for Constitution Research, founded in 1942 . He was the author of various specialist publications.

After the end of the Second World War , he issued an affidavit in defense of Kurt Blome, who was accused in the Nuremberg medical trial .

literature

  • Claudia Sybille Kiessling: Dr. med. Hellmuth Unger: (1891-1953); Poet doctor and medical press politician in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism, Matthiesen, Husum 1999, (Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences; 89), (Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1999),
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Robin Maitra: "... who is able and willing to serve the state with top performance!" Hans Reiter and the change in the health concept as reflected in the textbooks and handbooks on hygiene between 1920 and 1960. Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2001 (Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences 88), p. 259
  3. ↑ a b c Claudia Sybille Kiessling: Dr. med. Hellmuth Unger: (1891-1953); Poet doctor and medical press politician in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism, Matthiesen, Husum 1999, (Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences; 89), p. 139
  4. ↑ Horst Schütz: Health Care Between Humanitarian Claims and Eugenic Obligations: Development and Continuity of Social Hygiene Views between 1920 and 1960 using the example of Prof. Dr. Carl Coerper (= treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences. Vol. 98), Matthiesen, Husum 2004, p. 252
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 312f.
  6. ↑ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata , Academy of Sciences in Berlin, p. 44
  7. ^ A b Winfried Suss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, p. 469
  8. ^ The Nuremberg Doctors Trial 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. Index tape for the microfiche edition . On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. German edition, microfiche edition, Munich 2000, p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Sure, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klare, Paul Hermann Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, university professor and Nazi medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1954
Place of death Bielefeld