Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote

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Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote (born April 19, 1886 in Bremen , † March 15, 1960 in Siensbach, Baden , today part of Waldkirch ) was a German internist .

Life

Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote, son of the entomologist Augustus Radcliffe Grote from the United States , first studied art, then medicine at the universities of Freiburg , Rostock , Munich , Göttingen and Berlin . In Berlin he received his doctorate in 1912. med. In 1914 he became an assistant at the Medical University Clinic in Halle . He did military service as a troop doctor and later as a hospital doctor; he was awarded the Iron Cross II Class and the Bulgarian Civil Service Order IV Class. In 1918 he completed his habilitation in Halle, was appointed senior physician at the medical university clinic and in 1922 became a non-official extraordinary professor of internal medicine. In 1924 he was appointed head physician at the Weißer Hirsch sanatorium in Dresden and was given leave of absence from teaching in Halle. In 1930 he ran a hospital in Frankfurt am Main . From January 1934 he was clinic director in Zwickau . In 1934, Grote, who was a specialist in naturopathy, became the head physician of the Rudolf Hess Hospital (formerly Johannstadt Hospital, today Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden ) in Dresden. In March 1945 he was removed from office for “defeatist speeches”. There is no evidence that Grote was a member of the NSDAP . However, in 1934, during a brief activity at the Zwickau Hospital, he was an assessor at the local Hereditary Health Court and in at least seven cases in the conviction of women in sterilization processes at the Upper Hereditary Health Court in Saxony, and he was also involved in a series of negotiations relating to the sterility of prisoners in the Hoheneck State Prison Center (Chemnitz Medical District ).

In 1939 he was a member of the advisory board of the Scientific Society for Natural Living and Healing, founded by Ernst Günther Schenck and Karl Kötschau . Since November 1942 he was an advisory board member of the German Society for Constitution Research . During this time he tried to cure diabetics with X-rays of the pituitary gland .

Grote became chief physician in Wetzlar in 1946 and was director of the Glotterbad rehab clinic in Glottertal from 1952 to 1959 . Grote was married and had four children.

He died in 1960 in Waldkirch (Siensbach) in the Emmendingen district in the Black Forest and was buried in the cemetery in Gutach im Breisgau .

Grote was instrumental in research into the disease diabetes mellitus . From 1928 he was part of the editorial team (Department of Internal Medicine, Constitutional and Hereditary Doctrine) of the journal Hippokrates .

Fonts

  • Present-day medicine in self-expression . F. Meiner Verlag, Leipzig 1923
  • with Alfred Brauchle : Conversations about conventional medicine and naturopathy. With a foreword from Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner . Reclam, Leipzig 1935
  • The law of time in biology and pathology . NS-Gauverlag Weser-Ems, 1942
  • with Karl Eduard Rothschuh : The doctor in the face of life, illness and death. Hippokrates Verlag, 1961

literature

  • Elke Maria Böllinger: Life and work of internist Louis Radcliffe Grote (1886–1960) . Dissertation, University of Leipzig 2000
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 324
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Second updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , entry on Grote, p. 205.
  • Hans Ulrich Schulz:  Grote, Louis Radcliffe. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 163 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 205, with reference to Peter Voswinckel's supplements to the 3rd volume of the Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Hildesheim 2002.
  2. ↑ Caris-Petra Heidel: Schauplatz Sachsen: “From the Propaganda Center for Racial Hygiene to the Stronghold of Euthanasia”, in: Klaus-Dietmar Henke (Ed.): Deadly Medicine in National Socialism. From racial hygiene to mass murder . Böhlau, Cologne (inter alia) 2008, p. 133.
  3. ↑ Detlef Bothe. New German Medicine 1933-1945. Represented using the magazine "Hippokrates" and the development of the folk medicine movement. Matthiesen, Husum 1991, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Louis Ruyter Radcliffe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1960
Place of death Siensbach , Baden (now part of Waldkirch )