Martin Staemmler

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Martin Staemmler (born October 23, 1890 in Duschnik , Samter district ; † June 6, 1974 in Kiel ) was a German pathologist and university professor .

Life

Martin Staemmler was the third of eight children of Pastor Johannes Staemmler and his wife. He attended schools in Bromberg, Gniezno, and Poznan. After graduating from high school , he studied medicine at the universities of Halle, Jena, Königsberg and Göttingen from 1908 to 1913, which he completed in 1913 with the medical state examination. In 1913, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He then did his medical internship in Poznan and Chemnitz. After the outbreak of World War I he mainly served as a battalion doctor. After the end of the war, he worked as an assistant doctor in Chemnitz from 1919 and in Göttingen from 1921. In 1922 he qualified as a professor in Göttingen for pathological anatomy and then worked there as a private lecturer and from 1926 as an associate professor of pathology. In 1927 he became director of the Pathological-Hygienic Institute in Chemnitz . In April 1931 Staemmler joined the NSDAP ; later he also worked as a consultant for the racial politics office of the NSDAP . In addition, he was one of Theodor Fritsch's employees , to whom the latter expressed “special thanks” for working on his handbook on the Jewish question (Vorw. 33rd edition, 1933). From October 1933 he worked part-time as a full honorary professor for race care at the University of Leipzig . In May 1934 Staemmler became professor for pathological anatomy at the University of Kiel , in September 1935 for pathological anatomy at the University of Breslau , of which he was rector from November 1938 to September 1942. With the beginning of the Second World War he worked as a consulting pathologist at the General Command Breslau and was co-editor of the journal Volk und Rasse .

In January 1945 Staemmler was posted to Berlin via Chemnitz , where he was captured by the Soviets and interned in Frankfurt (Oder) . In March 1946 he managed to escape. From May 1946 to April 1947 he was interned in the Allied camp in Hamburg-Bergedorf. In 1947, Staemmler was classified as a “fellow traveler” (Category IV) in the arbitration chamber proceedings .

From July 1947 to March 1949 he worked at the private pathological institute in Detmold . From May to December 1949 he worked as a pathologist at the Hamm Municipal Hospital (Westphalia) . In January 1950 he became director of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the Aachen City Hospital . In July 1960 he officially retired from the University of Bonn . From November 1960 he headed the pathological department of the Grünenthal chemistry in Stolberg near Aachen .

Martin Staemmler died on June 6, 1974 in Kiel and found his final resting place in the family grave at the Aachen forest cemetery .

In 1966, the municipal hospitals were transferred to the Aachen University Hospital, the medical faculty of the RWTH Aachen . This faculty founded the Medical Society Aachen (MGA) in 1968. In 1972 Staemmler became an honorary member of the Aachen Medical Society. After the board of the MGA had received knowledge of Staemmler's involvement in the dissemination and implementation of the National Socialist racial doctrine on the basis of corresponding information in 2006, membership and honorary membership were canceled. Extensive efforts followed by then MGA chairman Frank Schneider and incumbent chairman Dominik Groß to come to terms with Staemmler's role.

Fonts (selection)

In the Soviet zone of occupation , Staemmler's writings Volk und Rasse (publishing house for social ethics and art care, Berlin 1933), the victory of life (publ. F. Social ethics and art care, Berlin 1934), basic facts of racial studies and the racial thought of National Socialism ( both NSDAP, national group Argentina, Buenos Aires 1936), race care and school (Beyer, Langensalza 1936), the selection in the hereditary current of the people ( Rather , Berlin 1939), race care in the national state ( Lehmann , Munich 1939), on germ damage by stimulants ( Neuland Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1941), Deutsche Rassenpflege (Neues Volk publishing house, Berlin 1942) and The victory of life is the meaning of the world (Volk und Reich publishing house, Berlin 1942) put on the list of literature to be discarded.

  • Race care in the national state. Lehmann , Munich 1933
  • (with Alfred Kühn and Friedrich Burgdörfer) Hereditary lore, race care, population policy: questions of fate for the German people. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1935
  • "Hereditary biological part" in: A. Böhme: Psychotherapy and castration. Lehmann, Munich 1935.
  • Nuclear toxins. In: teaching sheets for mathematics and science. 1935, pp. 289-296.
  • German race care. Berg & Otto, Hamburg 1939

literature

  • 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 , p. 165.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Frankfurt / Main, 2005. (paperback edition) ISBN 3-596-16048-0
  • Gereon Schäfer, Carola Döbber and Dominik Groß : Martin Staemmler - pathologist and university professor in the service of National Socialist racial policy . In: Richard Kühl, Tim Ohnhäuser and Gereon Schäfer (Eds.), Persecutors and Persecuted. Pictures of medical action under National Socialism (= Medicine and National Socialism, 2), Münster 2010, pp. 69–86. ( pdf )
  • Albrecht Scholz, Thomas Barth, Anna-Sophia Pappai and Axel Wacker: The fate of the teaching staff of the Medical Faculty in Breslau after the expulsion in 1945/46. In: Würzburger medical history reports 24, 2005, pp. 497-533, here: pp. 514 and 529.
  • Staemmler, Martin, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, p. 502.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Staemmler, Martin, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, p. 502
  2. ^ History of the Medical Society Aachen. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Letter S, list of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946 (Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946). .
  4. ^ Letter S, list of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948). .
personal data
SURNAME Staemmler, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor; Rector in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dushnik, Samter County, Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1974
Place of death Kiel