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Lothar Kreuz (born September 9, 1888 in Berlin , † January 24, 1969 in Stuttgart ) was a German orthopedist and medical officer. He was the last rector of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin.

Life

Kreuz studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . There he joined the Corps Normannia Berlin (1908) and Borussia Halle (1910). After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered as a newly qualified doctor on August 2, 1914 for the Fusilier Regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Blumenthal" (Magdeburgisches) No. 36 . As a junior physician to the reserve , he came into the field with Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 272. He resigned from military service as senior physician in the reserve (since November 3, 1917) . Kreuz went to the Orthopedic University Clinic of the Charité on December 15, 1918 and worked as an assistant doctor from February 15, 1919 . He received his doctorate on February 3, 1921 as Dr. med. He completed his habilitation on July 26, 1926 and taught as a private lecturer at the Charité. Since April 2, 1927 senior physician, in 1930 Kreuz became associate professor at the University of Berlin and at the same time head of the orthopedic department of the municipal hospital in Berlin-Britz . During the Nazi era , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 (membership number 2.590.659). On April 26, 1933, he joined the SS (membership number 235,693). On June 30, 1934, he was involved in the assassination of the SA leadership as an "executive doctor".

As an employee, Kreuz was involved in the lexicon of the entire therapy . In 1935 he went to the Albertus University in Königsberg as a professor . From 1937 he was full professor for orthopedics at the Berlin University. From 1936 he was involved in a DFG research project on the genetic significance of congenital malformations and malformations . From 1938 on, Kreuz was an advisory surgeon for the army . In the same function he was also active in the training staff of the SS medical department III and in the scientific staff of the SS main office. In 1940 he was sent to the army by the reserve military unit, reserve hospital company 113 in Berlin-Dahlem . On August 1, 1944, he was appointed general doctor of the reserve. From 1939 to 1942 he was dean of the medical faculty at Berlin University. From 1942, Kreuz was the last rector of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität for three academic years (until the end of the Second World War ) . In his inaugural address as rector he said among other things: "Comrades, the Führer has opened the gates to a new age for us". Since September 1, 1943, Kreuz held the rank of SS-Standartenführer . On August 18, 1942, Adolf Hitler appointed him a member of the Scientific Senate of Army Medical Services. In 1944 he became advisory board member of the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care Karl Brandt .

The Office of Military Government for Germany (US) took him into automatic arrest from June 1945 to 1947 . In 1948 he was classified as "exonerated" in the Stuttgart court proceedings . Founded in 1948 as a senior physician in the surgery department of the University Hospital Tübingen , he became honorary professor in 1949 and in 1952 director of the orthopedic clinic and professor of orthopedics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 1964 he retired .

Honors

Works

  • Encounters with Aphrodite: a psychological study of the genetics of the beautiful. 1964

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 7: Knabe – Luz. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2004. ISBN 3-7648-2902-8 , pp. 215-216.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 98-99.
  • Markwart Michler :  Cross, Lothar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 30 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Philipp Osten : "With all means ..." - Appointment procedures and specialist political disputes about orthopedics at the Berlin University and Charité during the period of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Sudhoffs Archiv 96 (2012), pp. 1–28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 5/347; 96/535
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On intrapelvic extraperitoneal resection of the obturator nerve
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 340.
  4. ↑ a b c d Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
  5. ↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).
  6. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  7. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 340.
personal data
SURNAME Cross, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist, SS standard leader, rector of the University of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1969
Place of death Stuttgart