Max Gundel

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Max Gundel (born February 7, 1901 in Kiel , † January 30, 1949 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German hygienist , bacteriologist and university professor .

Life

Gundel took part in the First World War in 1918 . After the end of the war, he joined a volunteer corps . He then studied natural sciences and medicine at the University of Kiel and the Social Medicine Academy Berlin-Charlottenburg. He was awarded a Dr. phil. and in 1924 Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant doctor at Kiel University Hospital, where he was approved in 1925 . In 1927 he moved to Heidelberg University , where he completed his habilitation in 1928 and then worked as a private lecturer . From 1928 he was also the first assistant to director Emil Gotschlich at the Hygiene Institute of Heidelberg University . As part of the emergency community of German science, he cooperated there with Herbert Linden .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 . From January 1934 he worked in Berlin at the Robert Koch Institute , where he headed the epidemic department. In 1934/35 he organized the vaccination of millions of children against diphtheria . From the end of January 1936 to the end of August 1937 he was an associate professor at the University of Berlin. From September 1936 on, he headed the Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr Area in Gelsenkirchen. In 1937 he also took on an extraordinary professorship at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . At the beginning of March 1940 he moved to Vienna, where he headed the (municipal) health department of the city of Vienna as a councilor for health and social affairs. Finally, he took over the (state) health department at the Reichsstatthalter in Vienna and acted as an advisory hygienist in Military District XVII (Vienna) . His work in Vienna was based on National Socialist principles. He also published regularly in the Völkischer Beobachter , the party newspaper of the NSDAP ; for example, on December 11, 1943, the 100th birthday of the physician, microbiologist and hygienist Robert Koch , an obituary for this very same thing. He also wrote articles in other newspapers.

At the end of the Second World War he left Vienna and from 1947 was advertised by the American military administration for a wanted man.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Herwig Czech: Record, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” from 1938 to 1945 . In: Heinz-Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. , Part III; Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .
  • Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56719-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Winfried Süß: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, p. 466
  2. ↑ a b c d Herwig Czech: Capture, assess, eradicate: The Vienna Main Health Office and the implementation of “hereditary and racial care” 1938 to 1945 , Vienna 2005, p. 23
  3. ^ Doctor / researcher / discoverer - Robert Koch, born on December 11, 1843. In:  Völkischer Beobachter. Battle sheet of the national (-) socialist movement of Greater Germany. Vienna edition / Vienna observer. Daily supplement to the “Völkischer Beobachter” , December 11, 1943, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / vob, accessed on January 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Gundel, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist, bacteriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1949
Place of death Gelsenkirchen