Lothar Gottlieb Tirala

Lothar Gottlieb Tirala (born October 17, 1886 in Brno , † February 20, 1974 in Wiesbaden ) was an Austrian physician , psychologist , zoologist , racial hygienist and university professor at the time of National Socialism .

Live and act

After attending grammar school in Brno, Tirala studied zoology at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate there in 1908 with the dissertation "Regeneration and transplantation in Criodrilus". phil. Then be followed studied medicine in Vienna, which he in December 1913 Promotion to Dr. med. completed. He then worked as a scientific assistant at the University of Vienna at the Pharmacological Institute and, after the beginning of the First World War, at the Physiological Institute there. Tirala was friends with Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Othmar Spann and was also their family doctor. From 1920 Tirala worked as a doctor for the Austrian railway in Wilhelmsburg and from 1922 as a gynecologist at the gynecological clinic of the University of Vienna. From 1925 he practiced as a resident gynecologist in Brno.

Tirala joined the DNSAP in Brno in 1927 and described himself as the party's “medical officer”. In March 1934 he was accepted into the NSDAP .

At the beginning of November 1933, Tirala was appointed to the chair for Racial Hygiene at the University of Munich as the successor to Fritz Lenz , where he also headed the Institute for Racial Hygiene there as director. The appeal was made without the participation of the Munich Medical Faculty and against the advice of Lenz, who complained that Tirala "was not informed about the basic principles of racial hygiene". Tirala's appointment was supported by the Gauleiter Julius Streicher , the National Socialist physicist Philipp Lenard , the publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann and Eva Wagner − Chamberlain .

After his appointment, Tirala took over the management of the Munich branch of the German Society for Racial Hygiene . He was also co-editor of the magazine Volk und Rasse .

“It is not acceptable for a Germanic girl to have a Jewish man as a boyfriend or husband and in this way the bastardization of our people is promoted. [...] As racial hygienists, we demand the threat of punishment for every German who lives with a woman of a foreign race and for every German who has a relationship with a man of a foreign race or who legitimizes this relationship through marriage. "

- Lothar Gottlieb Tirala 1935 in his publication Race, Spirit and Soul

In April 1936, Tirala was ousted as professor and head of the institute due to inability, taking advantage of, performing abortions and other charges. The acting head of the Munich Institute for Racial Hygiene was the psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin , who, like the Reichsdozentenführer Walter Schultze, was one of Tirala's opponents. ( Ferdinand Sauerbruch did not want to promote Tirale either). Despite support from Julius Streicher and the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner and the commitment of DFG President Rudolf Mentzel for Tirala, he did not succeed in establishing a racial hygiene educational institution in Nuremberg. His legal dispute over his reinstatement as a professor was unsuccessful and his professorial title was revoked.

Under the title o. Ö. Univ.-Prof. a. D. he lived in Vienna from 1944 and later in Graz . He worked as a consultant at the Private Austrian Sociological Institute in Unterburg, which was established in 1946 . He later lived in Wiesbaden and from 1954 worked as chief physician at the Wilke sanatorium there for cardiovascular diseases. Lothar G. Tirala published homoeopathic essays and promoted the doctrine of healing breathing he devised in the 1930s for the non-drug treatment of blood pressure and heart diseases.

Fonts (selection)

• Regeneration and transplantation in Criodrilus. Dissertation at the University of Vienna, 1912.
• About the influence of ether anesthesia on the ability of bees to return home. In: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archive for experimental pathology and pharmacology. Volume 97, 1923, pp. 433-440.
• Cure for blood pressure disease through breathing exercises. Frankfurt am Main 1935. (25 editions published until 1981)
• Race, spirit and soul. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1935.
• Sport and Race. H. Bechhold Verlagbuchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1936.
• Healing breathing . Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1943.
• Biological therapy for cardiovascular diseases . W. Krieg, Vienna / Bad Bocklet / Zurich [1954].
• Biological healing pathways for cardiovascular patients . Karl F. Haug, Ulm / Danube 1965.
• Mass Psychoses in Science . Publishing house of the Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (Grabert-Verlag), Tübingen 1969.

literature

• Helmut Böhm: From self-administration to the leader principle. The University of Munich in the first years of the Third Reich (1933-1936) , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08218-4 , pp. 507-514.
• Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual. Akademie Verlag, Edition Education and Science Volume 10, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 .
• Helmut Heiber : University under the swastika. Part 1: The professor in the Third Reich. Images from the academic province. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-598-22629-2 , pp. 445-460.
• 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

• Lothar Gottlieb Tirala. in the archive for the history of sociology in Austria at: agso.uni-graz.at
• Literature by and about Lothar Gottlieb Tirala in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Müller: Lothar Gottlieb Tirala. in the archive for the history of sociology in Austria at: agso.uni-graz.at
2. ↑ Helmut Heiber: University under the swastika. Part 1: The professor in the Third Reich. Images from the academic province. Munich 1991, p. 448.
3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 627.
4. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual. Berlin 2006, p. 479.
5. ↑ Lothar Gottlieb Tirala: Race, Spirit and Soul. Lehmann, Munich 1935, p. 152.
6. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. (Dissertation Würzburg 1995) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 7.
7. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 179.