Leopold Vellguth

Leopold Vellguth (born February 15, 1877 in Bremen , † October 18, 1946 in Flensburg ) was a German doctor and Nazi " racial hygienist ".

Vellguth passed the Abitur in 1896 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , studied medicine in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1901. From 1904–1912 he was a general practitioner in Kirchtimke (Zeven district) and Niebüll (North Friesland). Then he went to civil service in Flensburg and from 1914–1916 to Danzig . From 1916 to 1934 he was a district doctor for the districts of Süder- and Norderdithmarschen in Meldorf .

At the age of 55, he joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1932 ( membership number 959.290). From 1934 to 1937 he moved to Dresden as a medical advisor and head of the Saxon Hereditary Health Office and rose from 1937 to 1942 to the senior government council in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . In addition, he joined the SS as Untersturmführer in 1938 (No. 91.165) and worked in the “ Race and Settlement Main Office ” (RuSHA) in 1938/39 . At the beginning of the war in 1939 he was drafted to lead the special medical squadron, and retired in 1942, except for a time as a company doctor in a Berlin industrial company.

His son Hermann Vellguth was also a "race hygienist".

Fonts

• Smallpox in the Schleswig region from April 1916 to August 1917: Overview of the results of the inoculation of real smallpox substance during 1917 , 1917
• Racial hygiene propaganda ; in: Practical Health Care in School and Home , 2/1933. H. 2. pp. 19-24
• The development and maintenance of the genetic makeup ; in: Health and Education 46/1933, no. 10, pp. 360–365
• Eugenic experiences in a Schleswig-Holstein district (Dithmarschen) , Schuetz, Berlin 1933

literature

• Christian Harten u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich , Akademie Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 , p. 482
• www.roterhusar.org

Web links

• Invitation to speak Vienna 1942